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Ken Rosenthal and Adam Wainwright join! Padres revitalizing team dinner, Lineup changes for Yankees? Kiké = Mr. October · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Happy Hump Day, everybody, and welcome to a brand new
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  Speaker 1: live episode of Foul Territory. Eric Kratz, Alana Rizzo, in
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  Speaker 1: to our first guest today as we welcome in our
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers and every other team insider, Ken Rosenthal, covering Major
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  Speaker 2: All right, Ken. So we welcome you in. Always good
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  Speaker 2: to see you.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, Los Angeles leading the Atlanta Braves by a
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  Speaker 1: score of two to one in that best of five series.
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  Speaker 1: Kike Hernandez and October, Ken, just synonymous.
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  Speaker 2: What have you seen so far?
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  Speaker 3: Well, that part of it is incredible right there. He
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  Speaker 3: has 17 career post-season home runs. That's as many as
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  Speaker 3: David Ortiz and some other big names. Jim Tomey was
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  Speaker 3: another one on that list. And I know maybe Kike's
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  Speaker 3: gotten more opportunities than some, but it's not like he's
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  Speaker 3: an everyday player.
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  Speaker 4: And we have seen this repeatedly.
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  Speaker 3: Over the years that he gets his opportunities when they
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  Speaker 3: come in October and he rises to the occasion. And
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  Speaker 3: last night he did it against Chris Sale, one of
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  Speaker 3: the best pitchers in the game. So October Kike or
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  Speaker 3: October Kike is a real thing. And it's just kind
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  Speaker 3: of one of those quirks in baseball but a credit
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  Speaker 3: to him too because clearly he stays ready clearly he
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  Speaker 3: seizes and loves the moment and i said on the
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  Speaker 3: show last night that his agent when i asked him
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  Speaker 3: about this he had that great line about how they
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  Speaker 3: cryogenically seal him until september and then let him out
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  Speaker 3: it almost like makes sense but of course that's not
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  Speaker 3: happening he.
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  Speaker 5: Even said post game he said i don't really like
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  Speaker 5: talking about he said i feel like my luck's gonna
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  Speaker 5: run out well At this point, it's no longer luck.
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  Speaker 5: Because you talk to everybody, from the managers to the
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  Speaker 5: coaches to the players. Who's more surprised? Kike or his
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  Speaker 5: teammates that he did this again in the postseason?
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  Speaker 4: I would say no.
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  Speaker 3: One with the Dodgers is surprised because this has been
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  Speaker 3: going on for years now, Eric. And it's just a
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  Speaker 3: testament to his character and his drive and all the
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  Speaker 3: things that he brings.
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  Speaker 4: To the team. One of the reasons.
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  Speaker 3: that Dave Roberts had him in there yesterday. And this,
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  Speaker 3: of course, is not the main reason. The main reason
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  Speaker 3: was they wanted the right-handed hitters against Sale. And they wanted,
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  Speaker 3: in this particular situation, Max Muncy not in the lineup,
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  Speaker 3: Tommy Edmund not.
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  Speaker 6: In the lineup.
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  Speaker 3: They wanted the right-handed guys. Edmund's swing didn't match up
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  Speaker 3: with Sale's. Muncy is a left-handed hitter. Not a great
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  Speaker 3: matchup for him either. So that's the main reason KK's
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  Speaker 3: in there. But as Dave Roberts said after the game,
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  Speaker 3: he also brings an energy about him There's an urgency
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  Speaker 3: to him when he's out there. And it's not that
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  Speaker 3: the guys on the Dodgers didn't feel that urgency, but
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  Speaker 3: as I wrote this morning, Roberts had a meeting or
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  Speaker 3: attended the hitters meeting on the workout day and said, guys,
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  Speaker 3: play it like it's elimination game tomorrow.
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  Speaker 4: Let's go. And even the Dodgers, as accomplished.
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  Speaker 3: As they are, and maybe especially the Dodgers because they're
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  Speaker 3: so accomplished, occasionally need that reminder that it's kind of
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  Speaker 3: go time, guys.
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  Speaker 4: And I know it's the playoffs, and people might say, well,
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  Speaker 4: come on.
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  Speaker 3: But this team has been here so many times before,
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  Speaker 3: maybe they needed that little extra push, and Kike is
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  Speaker 3: the kind of guy who can give it to them.
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  Speaker 5: Kind of melding what you talked about in your article
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  Speaker 5: with Dave Roberts and the meeting that he had, and
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  Speaker 5: having Kike in there, and having Miguel Rojas. There's other
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  Speaker 5: teams that we've heard, well, you know, this shouldn't be
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  Speaker 5: panic time, and yet what I gleaned from your article
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  Speaker 5: was it kind of is panic time that Dave, not
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  Speaker 5: panic in a bad way, but Dave Roberts was like, guys,
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  Speaker 5: we need you to have urgency. Is that something he's
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  Speaker 5: learned and always been that way? Or when they weren't
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  Speaker 5: winning the World Series championships, was he more leaning to
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  Speaker 5: where I think some of the other managers are where
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  Speaker 5: it's like, well, the numbers say this should happen.
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  Speaker 4: Eric, it's a great point you make.
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  Speaker 3: He definitely over the years, in my view, has grown
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  Speaker 3: into the job and.
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  Speaker 4: Assumed a more assertive way about him.
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  Speaker 3: Not that he wasn't before, but he feels comfortable. Now
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  Speaker 3: he also feels like he knows his players. Many of
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  Speaker 3: these players have been with him for years now. So
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  Speaker 3: as I wrote, it's tricky for a manager in his
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  Speaker 3: position when you've got a team like this that wins
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  Speaker 3: so much, it's difficult to know when to push the
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  Speaker 3: button and when to say, guys, let's go. But You
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  Speaker 3: make a great point, Eric. And let's go to the
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  Speaker 3: Yankees series as an example. My friend Joel Sherman, the
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  Speaker 3: New York Post, wrote yesterday they should have extensive lineup changes,
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  Speaker 3: maybe expensive lineup changes too, for tonight's game. And Aaron
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  Speaker 3: Boone has been resistant to that kind of thing over
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  Speaker 3: the years. And it's going to be really interesting to
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  Speaker 3: see who they roll out there tonight, if it's their
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  Speaker 3: best defense or are they going to go in some
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  Speaker 3: other way. As I wrote today, Roberts clearly was not
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  Speaker 3: satisfied with what he saw in game two. Team was
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  Speaker 3: a little complacent, almost like they conceded in a way.
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  Speaker 4: And with that, he wasn't going to sit still.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, credit to him for doing that, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 3: because sometimes teams need a little bit of a boost.
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  Speaker 1: Ken, switching our focus now on the playoffs. Atlanta Braves
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  Speaker 1: and Chris Sale. It wasn't as if Chris Sale pitched
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  Speaker 1: extremely poorly. I mean, it was seven hits, three earned runs.
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  Speaker 1: He did have seven punchies. It was just that Yamamoto
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  Speaker 1: pitched a little bit better. I mean, seven innings with
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  Speaker 1: four hits, just the one earned run and 10 Ks
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  Speaker 1: for Yamamoto. Yamamoto, Ken, I don't know if he gets
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  Speaker 1: the attention he deserves. It seems a little silly considering
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  Speaker 1: he was the World Series MVP, but so much of
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  Speaker 1: the conversation entering this good matchup was about Chris Sale,
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  Speaker 1: not necessarily on Yamamoto. Did he show you something more yesterday?
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  Speaker 4: Not something more.
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  Speaker 3: He showed me what he's shown me in the postseason
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  Speaker 3: ever since he arrived in this country.
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  Speaker 4: Alana, I would agree with you.
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  Speaker 3: He doesn't get enough credit, and maybe it's because, obviously,
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  Speaker 3: he's Japanese, he doesn't speak English, he's not in the
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  Speaker 3: media as much as some others, but that shouldn't be it,
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  Speaker 3: and shouldn't be a reason why he doesn't get the
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  Speaker 3: attention he deserves. Most people understand who he is by now,
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  Speaker 3: and he is a surgeon out there. He has six pitches,
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  Speaker 3: and he'll go to them at different times, and he'll
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  Speaker 3: have different usage patterns. Batter-to-batter, game-to-game, inning-to-inning, however you want
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  Speaker 3: to break it down. And I asked pitching coach Mark
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  Speaker 3: Pryor about this, and he said, listen, this guy, he obviously,
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  Speaker 3: since coming over here, has learned more about the hitters.
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  Speaker 3: And he has a great understanding of what he wants
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  Speaker 3: to do, what is working. And the key thing is
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  Speaker 3: he has the ability to– increases fastball usage as he
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  Speaker 3: did yesterday or increases split usage, his sinker usage, his cutter,
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  Speaker 3: whatever the case might be.
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  Speaker 4: However he wants to go, he can take that route.
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  Speaker 6: Ken, you're so biased towards the Dodgers. All you want
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  Speaker 6: to talk about is the Dodgers. So I see that.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, Alana's on here.
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  Speaker 4: I'm answering questions about the Dodgers, AJ. What's your question?
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  Speaker 4: Let's go.
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  Speaker 6: I'm going to ask about the Braves. What's wrong with
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  Speaker 6: the Braves' offense? Ronald Acuna has done basically nothing. You know,
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  Speaker 6: with him being hurt, he has to DH, take Sean
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  Speaker 6: Murphy out of the lineup. Where's the Brave offense going?
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  Speaker 6: Because this has been a team for years that, oh,
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  Speaker 6: it's offense, offense, offense. They're going to score a million runs.
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  Speaker 6: Is it a credit to the Dodgers pitching or is
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  Speaker 6: the offense for the Dodgers or Braves just not that good?
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  Speaker 3: It's not just Acuna. It's Baldwin and it's Olsen, too.
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  Speaker 3: These guys combined in the postseason have not done much. Now,
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  Speaker 3: one reason for that, and it's not to make an excuse,
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  Speaker 3: but let's face it.
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  Speaker 4: They have seen great pitching.
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  Speaker 3: In the wild card series, it was Lizardo, Sanchez, and
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  Speaker 3: then Wheeler in relief of Nola. In this series, Scooble, Snell,
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  Speaker 3: that they did a decent job against, and of course, Yamamoto.
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  Speaker 3: So we're talking about Cy Young winners. We're talking about
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  Speaker 3: a World Series MVP.
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  Speaker 4: And again, no excuses.
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  Speaker 3: This is the time of year when you face that
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  Speaker 3: kind of quality of pitching. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 3: that's part of it. Now, if the Braves are going
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  Speaker 3: to get back in this series, they've got a hit tonight.
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  Speaker 3: And for all the talk about their pitching, and I've
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  Speaker 3: talked about it endlessly, we all have.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, they don't have enough starters, blah, blah, blah. Their
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  Speaker 4: team ERA in this series, I believe, is 3.16. Actually,
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  Speaker 4: in the postseason. Something like that.
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  Speaker 3: 3.16. It's in the low threes. That's not the problem.
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  Speaker 3: The pitching has not been the problem.
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  Speaker 4: They've got a hit.
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  Speaker 3: And I would expect tonight they'll get a representative showing,
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  Speaker 3: if not a good showing, from Tyler Malley. He's been really,
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  Speaker 3: really good for them. But If they don't get to
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  Speaker 3: Tyler Glass now, it's over.
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  Speaker 5: I assume the lineups aren't out yet, but the chance
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  Speaker 5: of Acuna being in there at DH, does that hamstring,
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  Speaker 5: that injury, going to loom large in hamstringing them, putting
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  Speaker 5: their best lineup out there?
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  Speaker 4: I don't see it that way, Eric.
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  Speaker 3: They're pretty good without him in right field, but the
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  Speaker 3: expectation among their people is that he is going to
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  Speaker 3: be in right field tonight. Obviously he has to go
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  Speaker 3: out to the field, get checked out, run around a
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  Speaker 3: little bit and make sure he's okay. But as of
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  Speaker 3: last night, that was the expectation that he would be
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  Speaker 3: in the lineup in right field. Obviously, he had some
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  Speaker 3: knee soreness yesterday. That's what slowed him down, made him
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  Speaker 3: be a DH. But they're pretty happy with Sean Murphy,
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  Speaker 3: the way he's hitting right now. So they didn't feel
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  Speaker 3: badly about their lineup. I don't know that that's necessarily
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  Speaker 3: limiting them. What's limiting them.
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  Speaker 4: Is they're not hitting.
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  Speaker 1: Ken, something was said about, you know, that Dave Roberts
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  Speaker 1: needed to move Ohtani down in the lineup. Obviously, Kiki
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  Speaker 1: Hernandez finally getting a start versus coming off of the bench.
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  Speaker 1: I understand, you know, Tyler Molle is not Chris Sale,
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  Speaker 1: but do you anticipate the same looking type of lineup
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  Speaker 1: from the Dodgers today?
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  Speaker 3: What Dave Roberts said yesterday in answering questions about the
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  Speaker 3: Ohtani move was that it was temporary. that it was
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  Speaker 3: not going to be permanent, and he certainly indicated that
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  Speaker 3: Otani would be in a higher spot tonight. That was
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  Speaker 3: the lowest he has hit in a batting order since
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  Speaker 3: 2020 when he was with the Angels. So the expectation
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  Speaker 3: is that he'll be back higher in the lineup tonight,
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  Speaker 3: or at least that was the indication yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: But at the same time, he is struggling, and it
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  Speaker 4: wasn't much better last night, really. So I don't know
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  Speaker 4: what they're going to do along those lines.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to be Interesting to see exactly how they
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  Speaker 3: go about it. I'm expecting Muncy to be back in there.
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  Speaker 3: I would think Edmonds back in there as well. Rojas,
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  Speaker 3: of course, left the game last night with a back issue.
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  Speaker 3: Where are Otani bats, though? I guess that is the question.
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  Speaker 6: Ken, Otani last night, yes, he didn't, I mean, he,
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  Speaker 6: I guess, struggled, but he was better. He didn't go
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  Speaker 6: way out of the strike zone. He was kind of
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  Speaker 6: laying off more pitches. Do you know if Dave Roberts
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  Speaker 6: talked to him or the hitting coaches talked to him?
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  Speaker 6: Because that's kind of been his big thing, right? since
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  Speaker 6: he's come back. He's been swinging at everything. So I
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  Speaker 6: know Dave Roberts talked to the hitters. Did he have
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  Speaker 6: a private meeting with Otani and say, hey, man, take
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  Speaker 6: some pitches? Because Chris Hill basically didn't throw him any strikes,
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  Speaker 6: and he did a much better job of getting into
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  Speaker 6: better counts.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if they talked to him privately. I
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  Speaker 4: imagine they did.
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  Speaker 3: They've certainly been very public, or at least Roberts has,
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  Speaker 3: about how Otani's been chasing.
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  Speaker 4: It's no secret that he's been chasing.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm sure at some level they said, hey, man,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Maybe wait to get the ball in the
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  Speaker 3: zone a little more.
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  Speaker 4: So it's not a secret what's happening with him.
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  Speaker 3: My question there is, and this is the kind of
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  Speaker 3: thing we never find out until the following spring, how
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  Speaker 3: compromised is he physically?
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  Speaker 4: Now, I know they say.
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  Speaker 3: He's okay, he's playing, and certainly guys play banged up
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  Speaker 3: at this time all the time.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm just wondering just how much.
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  Speaker 4: What percentage he's at. Is he at 80? Is he
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  Speaker 4: at 90?
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  Speaker 3: Now we'll probably never find out, but at the same time,
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  Speaker 3: that's my question.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And that was the question going into the series about
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  Speaker 5: Freddie Freeman too. And Freddie Freeman had one extra base hit.
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  Speaker 5: Is this, is this just, I mean, it's almost comical
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  Speaker 5: that he can turn it around like this, essentially hit
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  Speaker 5: two home runs last night. I know the one was robbed,
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  Speaker 5: but turning it around, does he feel or look to
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  Speaker 5: the team or to your eye that he's, Physically better
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  Speaker 5: or he's just postseason Freddie now?
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  Speaker 3: Something happened during the bye that kind of helped him
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  Speaker 3: turn around.
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  Speaker 4: And what happened was this.
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  Speaker 3: Hitting coaches and him saw on video that he was
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  Speaker 3: kind of turning his upper body too far toward shortstop
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  Speaker 3: and third base. What Freddie tries to do is hit
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  Speaker 3: everything over the shortstop's head.
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  Speaker 4: That's his goal. And you can see that watching him hit.
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  Speaker 3: But there are times when he will get into an
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  Speaker 3: exaggerated position because he's trying to do that, and that
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  Speaker 3: is what happened. So the adjustment he made was getting
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  Speaker 3: square toward the pitcher and not turning so much toward
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  Speaker 3: the left side of the infield, and that is what
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  Speaker 3: turned him around. Before the series started, he told me
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  Speaker 3: five days ago I felt like I couldn't hit.
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  Speaker 4: Now I feel like I'm back. This physical adjustment he
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  Speaker 4: made is similar.
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  Speaker 3: To the mental cue that he kind of adopted in 2024.
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  Speaker 3: Remember when he would talk about that step out move
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  Speaker 3: when he was thinking in his head, step back or
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  Speaker 3: step out. Don't be so focused on going that way
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  Speaker 3: in your head and that.
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  Speaker 4: Way you won't.
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  Speaker 3: It's kind of complicated to explain, complicated to understand, but
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  Speaker 3: that was his thinking.
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  Speaker 4: This is a physical adjustment that he made.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I was always worried about Freddie Freeman being able
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  Speaker 6: to hit. I mean, one thing Freddie Freeman will always be.
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  Speaker 5: Able to do, Ken, is hit.
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  Speaker 6: So tonight, when you're on the broadcast, I want you
• 14:48
  Speaker 6: to do me a favor. I want you to have
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  Speaker 6: Jen and Brandon Godden and John Smoltz and everybody there
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  Speaker 6: in Atlanta, I want you to have them send you
• 14:56
  Speaker 6: a tomahawk steak, a big tomahawk steak. They brought one
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  Speaker 6: to us last time I did a game in Atlanta,
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  Speaker 6: and I want to see you house that whole thing, Ken.
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  Speaker 6: Take full boat on camera and house that whole thing.
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  Speaker 4: All right, I'm going to go now. But unlike you,
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  Speaker 4: when I'm on a broadcast, my focus is not eating.
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  Speaker 6: What do you mean? Last night in San Diego, they
• 15:17
  Speaker 6: brought us donuts. They brought us a surf and turf sandwich.
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  Speaker 6: They brought us a pretzel Cuban. What else did they
• 15:24
  Speaker 6: bring us? Geez, they brought us so much stuff.
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  Speaker 5: AJ, I'll see you later, man.
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  Speaker 4: Have a great night.
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  Speaker 1: your take first, AJ, about what you called last night.
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  Speaker 2: You got the best series, I think, out of all
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  Speaker 2: of them. What a good time.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, three one-run games. No team has had more
• 16:17
  Speaker 6: than a two-run lead at any point in this series.
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  Speaker 6: Every at-bat, we kind of try to think about this.
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  Speaker 6: How many at-bats in this series have there been? where
• 16:27
  Speaker 6: someone couldn't tie or take the lead for one of
• 16:29
  Speaker 6: the teams. It's been very few and far between. Two great,
• 16:33
  Speaker 6: amazing atmospheres, Milwaukee and then San Diego last night. When
• 16:37
  Speaker 6: they do all the small things, and we showed the
• 16:41
  Speaker 6: lead singer for Blink-182 who was sitting in the front row,
• 16:44
  Speaker 6: the place went absolutely insane. Huge hits, huge defensive plays,
• 16:49
  Speaker 6: huge pitches, guys going missing games for bursts of child. Guys,
• 16:55
  Speaker 6: lineup changes late because of things. Just who's going to pitch.
• 17:00
  Speaker 6: I don't know how the Padres are going to find
• 17:02
  Speaker 6: nine innings of outs today with Buehler starting and then
• 17:06
  Speaker 6: a lot of their longer guys worn down. Michael King
• 17:08
  Speaker 6: coming out of the bullpen for two innings and 40
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: pitches last night. This series has literally had everything you
• 17:14
  Speaker 6: could ask for as a fan. Three one-run games, three
• 17:17
  Speaker 6: games that came down to the last pitch with guys
• 17:20
  Speaker 6: on base.
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: This has been one of the best series I've ever seen.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: Eric, are you not entertained?
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: I mean, if you're not entertained by this series, you
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: don't like baseball. Because there's homers, there's small ball, there's
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: all the other stories, there's the electric atmosphere at both stadiums,
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: all like you guys said. And the fact that the Padres,
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: I don't want to say lose, but they don't have
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: Mason Miller, and then their best starting pitcher ultimately becomes
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: their closer and says– I'm available for game three, game four,
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: and game five if you need me. To me, it's
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: almost like watching a kid's game where kids are like,
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: I don't want to lose. I don't want to lose.
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: We're going to do whatever it takes, and we're going
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: to get the job done. That Tatis, that bat, while
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: it's never going to go down in the scorebook, it's like, oh, wow,
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: he got an RBI. People hate on the RBI. He
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: did whatever he could to make sure he got that
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: run in with the bases, with the infield drawn in.
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: They're running a contact play. It's just been incredible baseball.
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: And I hope it goes to game five because I
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: want to see two more of these games.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt about it. It has been an absolute blast.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: One thing that was interesting is Dennis Lynn, who covers
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: the Padres guys for The Athletic, had an article about
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: how A staff, well, a team dinner, rather, about 10
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: weeks ago hosted, it was players only at a Miami restaurant.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: At that time, the Padres were a game below 500,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: a long shot to even reach the postseason. It was
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: hosted by Michael King, but it was Manny Machado who
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: kind of stood up and addressed his teammates for a
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: little bit more than a minute, talking about how they
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: needed to refine their attention to detail, rededicating themselves to
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: their preparation, reducing distractions, including, and I love your take
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: on this, guys.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: I'll start with you, AJ.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Including rethinking when children should be allowed in the Padres clubhouse.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: For example, if they lose Manny was saying, and I'm
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: paraphrasing here that that's not the time. It's not a
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: celebratory type of situation, right? Kids shouldn't be running around
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: the clubhouse. It's the time to refocus those types of things.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: So AJ, I want your opinion on, on that conversation
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: and that team dinner. And also what are some other
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: things that you've done in terms of riding the ship
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: for your team, if they were going in the wrong direction?
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: Oh, well, I mean, everyone tries these team dinners. Everyone
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: does these team dinners. Everyone tries to get together and
• 19:48
  Speaker 6: do things. And sometimes they work and sometimes it's just
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: a really good dinner with a lot of fun. And
• 19:53
  Speaker 6: it doesn't really change the trajectory of your team. I
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: was on bad teams in Atlanta. We had team dinners
• 19:58
  Speaker 6: and we could have had all the team.
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: Dinners every night and it wouldn't matter. We just weren't
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: very good.
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: So it's really cool that they had this team dinner.
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: But as far as the kids go, Here's the thing.
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: That's a team-by-team decision. I played on teams where kids
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: weren't allowed, right, at any time. And then I played
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: on the White Sox, and Ozzie Guillen actually wanted kids
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: after the game because he said after a loss more
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: than he wanted after a win because he said it
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: lightened up the mood and it changed everybody's mood. As
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: soon as their kids walked in, you put a smile
• 20:26
  Speaker 6: on your face instead of feeling sorry for yourself. So
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: it's a team-by-team decision. I was also on the Red
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: Sox 2014. We weren't very good.
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: They came in.
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: We had David Ortiz's kids, my kids, John Lester's kids.
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: Everybody had their kids running around because we had a
• 20:39
  Speaker 6: bunch of veteran guys. And John Farrell said, no more
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: kids in the clubhouse before the games, no more kids shagging.
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: And we had like Koji Uehara's kid. We had, again,
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: Ortiz's kid. My kids were out there shagging. They're having
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: the times of their life. It wasn't their fault we
• 20:52
  Speaker 6: were losing. It was our fault because we weren't playing
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: very well. So, you know, it's all, and I remember
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: David went crazy and was like, what, we can't, I
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: can't have D'Angelo in the clubhouse anymore. What are we doing?
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: And they just changed the rule because they thought that
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: would matter.
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: It didn't make a difference.
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: The team still finished last and, traded away everybody. So
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: it's a team by team decision and it's a person
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: by person decision. So you know what? Hey, if that's
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: what made the Padres win and that's what they go with.
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: So yeah, great. It's a great, it's a great story
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: because now they're in the NLDS and they're trying to
• 21:23
  Speaker 6: come back. So everybody's looking for a reason that changed
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: your season around. How about they just started playing better?
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Everybody has, you can stay, you can say a
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: team was doing terrible and they had a team meeting
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: and now they're doing well. Other teams were doing terrible
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: and they have team meals, maybe even better than sushi.
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: Maybe it's, you know, big time steakhouse. Maybe it's carnivore Milwaukee,
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: whatever it is. I wonder why Michael King hosted a
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: Miami party and Manny didn't host the party. That's my
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: biggest question, but no, there's so many different sides of it.
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: And what AJ said about Ozzie saying, no, I don't,
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: I want them to come in after losses because it
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: gets guys focused off of like feeling bad for themselves
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: and That's a mindset. I would never, as a 25th,
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: 26th man on the roster, bring my kids in after
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: a loss. Even if other kids, like the good players' kids,
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: were coming into the locker room, I wouldn't because I
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: wouldn't want my kid to be distracting the guys who
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: are out there playing. So there's so many ways to
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: divulge this. But if a little extra focus is because
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: there's only kids in when it wins– Maybe that did
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: help one extra win, two extra wins.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: Who knows?
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: I don't know. You can't say it didn't.
• 22:38
  Speaker 7: True.
• 22:39
  Speaker 6: By the way, speaking of Manny and dinners, you mentioned
• 22:42
  Speaker 6: carnivore too. We went to carnivore on Friday night before
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: the series started. And we saw, we saw Ms. We
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: saw Bryce Terang. We saw, you know, a couple of
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: people in there talking to him or whatever. And then
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: yesterday we're in San Diego and I'm in the clubhouse
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: talking to some of the guys and Manny comes up
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: to me and says, Hey man, thanks for.
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: Dinner the other night. And I was like, what? Say what?
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: He goes, Oh yeah.
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: They said, they said, uh, AJ bought you dinner at carnivore.
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: And I was like, yeah, I'm like, I didn't, but
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: I'll take credit for it.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Maybe it was pro or Ellis.
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: So I said, I said, Hey, I'll tell you what,
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: if you were in there, I would have bought you dinner,
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: but I didn't see you. I would have been more
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: than happy to have bought you dinner. And if I
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: see you next time, I'll buy you dinner, but I,
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: but you know what? And we were just laughing about it.
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: He's like, Hey, well, if it wasn't you, who wasn't?
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: And I was like, well, there's a couple other AJs
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: around on the Padres.
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: He was laughing.
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: We had a good, it was a funny story. Cause
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: just because we were laughing about that fact, I didn't
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: even know he was in there. And he's like, and
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: I said, did you get a special knife? He's like, Oh,
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: I have my own knife there. And then, you know,
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: they do special menus for you and the whole deal
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: of carnivore. It's a great place, but yeah, it was
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: just funny. He's like, Hey, thanks for dinner.
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: I'm like, you're welcome.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, he makes a ton of cash. He should
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: be buying you dinner. Let's be honest. I mean, Manny Machado.
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: It's all good. It's all good. Okay.
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: I apologize. Nobody asked for more free dinners on this
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: show than the person that's made the most money. I
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: think that's how it goes. But then that's usually why
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: he's probably bought more dinners for people. So that's, it's,
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: it's like a, You know, Alana, it's like the unspoken, like,
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: creed of baseball.
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: We'll have to ask when Ueno comes on. When Ueno
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: comes on, we'll have to ask him about that dinner
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: because there's a great story in that dinner that Ueno,
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: we have to get a little bit, we have to
• 24:39
  Speaker 6: get into with Ueno. And he'll know when I bring
• 24:42
  Speaker 6: it up what happened that night at dinner. And it
• 24:45
  Speaker 6: was pretty funny. So when Ueno comes on, we'll.
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: Have to ask him.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Carnivore in Milwaukee. Good to know. I've not been there. Um,
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: all right.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: So Pat Murphy, uh, the manager of course, of the
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Milwaukee brewers when asked about what?
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: Oh, that I've not been.
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: Oh, sorry. Sorry. Yeah.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Sorry.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: 12 straight road playoff losses and reflecting on who they
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: lost to. And Murph's comments were, I wouldn't beat up
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: on the old brewers if you don't mind. I mean,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: this is a little silly, right? There's only one fricking
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: guy left. Uh, I think in, in terms of the
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: team that's, that's on that. I mean, If I'm Murph,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: I'm like, you know what? Quit underselling us. Quit doubting us.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Or maybe keep doubting us.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: I don't know. EK, what do you think?
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: No one's doubting the Brewers. And Murph said that before.
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: He tried to play that card last year. It was
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: kind of like, eh, it's a last card. Nobody's doubting them.
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: Everybody knows that the Brewers are really good. And the
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: whole like, well, since 2018, it's like, what? What? Big
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: Wu's the only other person that's being paid by the– well,
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: I guess maybe Ryan Braun's still being paid by him,
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: but being paid by the Brewers right now. So it
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: doesn't apply. When they do all these stats and stuff,
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: this team is in a fine place. It doesn't matter
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: that Trent Grisham and Jolese Chassin and Wade Miley– lost
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: playoff games before. Like this is a brand new team.
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: And I love the response.
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: It was honest.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: Speaking of honesty.
• 26:23
  Speaker 6: They broke one of the streaks last night. They broke
• 26:25
  Speaker 6: one of the streaks last night. Christian Yelich also hadn't
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: had an RBI since 2018. He got one last night
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: and he almost got another one at the end of
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: the game. That ball was smashed 107 miles an hour
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: and bogey went down like a catcher short hopped and
• 26:38
  Speaker 6: then turned into a double play. I saw, I saw
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: some Brewers people after the game and they said, and
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: that ball was hit. I thought it was at least
• 26:44
  Speaker 6: a tie game. We're at least looking at extra innings.
• 26:46
  Speaker 6: The last thing on earth I thought it would be
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: a double play, and me too. When he hit that ball,
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: it was like, oh, there's a knock, another one, and
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: we're going to keep this game going. And Bogey was
• 26:55
  Speaker 6: right there, made an unbelievable short hot pick, and turned
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: it into a double play. I mean, a foot, two
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: feet either way. Two feet either way, that ball's a knock,
• 27:03
  Speaker 6: and we got action.
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: I mean, it becomes– if it wasn't straight at him,
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: he can't go down on his knees to block it
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: like he did because it then becomes just like, a
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: backhand one hop where it looks like he's a lay
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: in it or a forehand one hop that where it
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: looks like he's a lay in it, but that would
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: have been his only shot. Like that was a very
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: sneaky on underrated play.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: He loved Murphy's honesty. How about this?
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: And the end game interview, of course, with Tom Verducci,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Verducci asked him how he liked the approach of his
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: team up to that point in the game. And as
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Murphy started to answer, Sal Freelick hits his line drive
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: and Murphy's response, take a listen to this.
• 27:41
  Speaker 7: It's great.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: Oh, is that, do we not have it? I'll just
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: read it for you, which swiftly.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: So he says, so Murph's response was, which swiftly shifts
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: as he realizes the ball is doomed for Merrill's gloves saying,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: get in the gap, Sal.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: God damn it, Merrill.
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: It was before he caught it. He called it.
• 27:58
  Speaker 6: The ball was like, not like halfway in the air
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: and he dropped that. And we were like, okay, I
• 28:02
  Speaker 6: guess interview's over. What are we, how do we top that?
• 28:05
  Speaker 6: But what people don't know, by the way, is he
• 28:08
  Speaker 6: knows Jackson Merrill very well because his son Kai lives
• 28:11
  Speaker 6: with him. He lives with Jackson Merrill. So, it's something
• 28:14
  Speaker 6: Murph doesn't know Jackson Merrill very well. That's his son's
• 28:18
  Speaker 6: roommate in the off season. They live together. So yeah, it's,
• 28:22
  Speaker 6: it was just, it was, it was awesome. It was
• 28:23
  Speaker 6: so Murph. I'm sure he's probably not very happy about
• 28:25
  Speaker 6: the word choice he used, but it was like such
• 28:29
  Speaker 6: a awesome thing from Murph and so unplanned and just amazing.
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: Murph is amazing.
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: If you haven't talked to Murph, if you get a chance, just,
• 28:37
  Speaker 6: just talk to Murph for five minutes, you will laugh
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: and just be amazed at what this guy says.
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: In a good way. In a good way. He's great.
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: You talk about Jackson Merrill. I was trying to get
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: a hold of him because Jose Salas' uncle and I
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: played together. So I was trying– I mean, Ethan Salas'
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: uncle and I played together. So I was trying to
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: get a hold of Ethan. And Kai, Pat Murphy's– Kai Murphy,
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: Pat Murphy's son, was rooming with him. And I think
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: it was high A or double A. I'm not sure
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: if it was last year or the year before that
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: I was trying to get a hold of him. So
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: Murph has become the grandfather of baseball right now, and
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: it's so crazy that it's a team that his son
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: is in the minor leagues for. So many great storylines.
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: The Dodgers-Braves series is boring compared to y'all's series.
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: And by the way, so Kai yesterday was in our
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: meeting with Murph, and he was in.
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: Full– Brewer gear.
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: And I said, you better not go outside, man, Cause
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: Preller and all the front office people. I'm like, you
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: better just tell you guys, they know where my allegiance stands.
• 29:42
  Speaker 6: They know exactly where my allegiance. And I also asked Murph,
• 29:45
  Speaker 6: I said, Murph, is this a revenge series for you
• 29:47
  Speaker 6: at the beginning of the series?
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: He goes, what do you mean?
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: I'm like, well, didn't the Padres fire you? And aren't
• 29:52
  Speaker 6: you going to try and get revenge for him? Cause
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: people forget that Murph managed the Padres for like a month.
• 29:57
  Speaker 6: And Dave Roberts was his bench coach. Like, It was crazy.
• 30:01
  Speaker 6: And he's like, I am so thankful for the Padres
• 30:03
  Speaker 6: for giving me the opportunity. He would, he couldn't have
• 30:05
  Speaker 6: had a better response. He's like, I get up there
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: and I had no idea what I was doing. He's like,
• 30:09
  Speaker 6: I was managing a big league team. I had no
• 30:11
  Speaker 6: clue what I was doing. And he's like, I had
• 30:13
  Speaker 6: Dave Roberts who went on to, you know, be a
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: hall of fame manager. He was my bench coach. He
• 30:16
  Speaker 6: didn't know what he was doing.
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: We were every day.
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: We were having a meeting. Like, how are we going
• 30:19
  Speaker 6: to get through this day? What's going to happen? And
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: it's going so fast. I don't know what's going on.
• 30:23
  Speaker 6: And so he, listen, he could not have been more
• 30:25
  Speaker 6: thankful for the Padres and the organization for giving him
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: an opportunity to, to manage at the.
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: Big league level.
• 30:30
  Speaker 6: And now he, here he is with the Brewers. And I,
• 30:32
  Speaker 6: plus there's nothing more fun than making fun of Murph
• 30:34
  Speaker 6: and being like, Hey, you're back to back. Cause when
• 30:37
  Speaker 6: we walk into the meeting, he'll say, what do you
• 30:38
  Speaker 6: guys got? And I'm like, Murph, you're the back to
• 30:40
  Speaker 6: back manager of the year. Shouldn't you be telling us
• 30:42
  Speaker 6: what we got? And he just, he just looks at
• 30:44
  Speaker 6: me and just gives me that evil look of Murph
• 30:46
  Speaker 6: and just starts laughing.
• 30:48
  Speaker 7: It's great.
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: He's the best.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he is. He's such a cool dude.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: Just a guy's guy, somebody you want to hang out with.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: And his honesty and his candor is refreshing. None of
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: the scripted answers that you typically get from these guys,
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: you know, game by game, day by day, all of
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: the things.
• 31:05
  Speaker 8: The 2026 MLB playoffs are here.
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: And guess what?
• 31:09
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  Speaker 1: Time to welcome on Adam Wainwright, who, of course, is
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: on the call with A.J. Pruszynski and Adam Amin.
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: A.J.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: Is a hoot.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Adam, it is good to be with you now. What's
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: been your biggest takeaway?
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: I have that couch. I have that couch in my room, too.
• 32:26
  Speaker 6: It's over there.
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: Are you guys on the couch? Yeah, we are. He's
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: right over there.
• 32:35
  Speaker 7: Yeah, we have similar things going on here.
• 32:39
  Speaker 9: My biggest takeaway so far is that we have two incredibly.
• 32:43
  Speaker 7: Evenly matched teams that we were trying to figure out
• 32:49
  Speaker 7: last night. I think the Padres have.
• 32:50
  Speaker 9: Even won or led more innings than the Brewers have
• 32:54
  Speaker 9: at this point.
• 32:56
  Speaker 7: And they're down two games to one.
• 32:58
  Speaker 9: And those two first games, I mean, like this could
• 33:01
  Speaker 9: have easily been a sweep for San Diego, right?
• 33:04
  Speaker 7: It was almost a sweep for Milwaukee.
• 33:06
  Speaker 9: It's just there's such this teeter-tottering going back and forth,
• 33:09
  Speaker 9: these two teams. They both are so talented. They both
• 33:12
  Speaker 9: want it so bad. The other takeaway is that Milwaukee
• 33:16
  Speaker 9: is relentless. They never stop coming. They have two runners
• 33:20
  Speaker 9: on base every inning, seemingly. So Walker Buehler is going
• 33:23
  Speaker 9: to have his hands cut out for him today.
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: But.
• 33:27
  Speaker 7: Is that the saying? Hands cut out for him? Work
• 33:29
  Speaker 7: cut out for him.
• 33:30
  Speaker 9: But it's going to be a grind on both sides
• 33:34
  Speaker 9: because both teams are so deep and they both can
• 33:37
  Speaker 9: beat you in so many different ways.
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: Hands cut out for you would be a different saying,
• 33:42
  Speaker 5: but that's fine. I mean, it would be tougher to
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: pitch with his hands cut out. I'm not sure what
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: that would be. But since this is going to be
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: a knock them out, drag them off, whatever it is,
• 33:52
  Speaker 5: fight for this whole series, is this hurting– whoever ends
• 33:57
  Speaker 5: up winning this to then go on and play most
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: likely a rested Dodgers team. Maybe not. I get it.
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: Your Braves are going to, they're going to, they're going
• 34:06
  Speaker 5: to make their push too. But yeah, yeah, yeah. We
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: know you Southern guy. You, you, you love, you love
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: your Braves. Don't worry about it. But is this going to, and,
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: and who, which of these teams is more built to
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: withstand the grind and the, and what it would take
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: to win the series to then continue on and win
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: the world series?
• 34:27
  Speaker 9: Well, I mean, one of the greatest strengths of the Padres,
• 34:32
  Speaker 9: if not the greatest strength of the Padres, has been
• 34:34
  Speaker 9: their bullpen all year.
• 34:36
  Speaker 7: There's some question.
• 34:37
  Speaker 9: Marks down there right now. I mean, I think Mason
• 34:40
  Speaker 9: Miller will most likely be back tonight.
• 34:43
  Speaker 7: We don't know.
• 34:43
  Speaker 9: We didn't know he was going to be out until
• 34:44
  Speaker 9: about five minutes before the game last night.
• 34:46
  Speaker 7: So that was fun. But, you know. with more hone and.
• 34:51
  Speaker 9: Some of the other guys who have already pitched as
• 34:53
  Speaker 9: many innings as they have these first couple, I know
• 34:56
  Speaker 9: there's an off there or whatever, but those innings stack
• 34:58
  Speaker 9: up and those appearances stack up and those up, down
• 35:00
  Speaker 9: stack up. And those, that bullpen's been, uh, taxed, um,
• 35:05
  Speaker 9: seemingly more.
• 35:06
  Speaker 7: Than the brewers. Maybe I'm wrong about that.
• 35:08
  Speaker 9: AJ, you can chime in and tell me if I'm wrong, but, um,
• 35:12
  Speaker 9: I like there's positives about Michael King's already pitched twice
• 35:16
  Speaker 9: this series.
• 35:16
  Speaker 7: So you're going to be ready for game five to
• 35:19
  Speaker 7: pitch a few more. Maybe, I don't know. I mean,
• 35:22
  Speaker 7: from a pitching side of it, I lean towards, this
• 35:26
  Speaker 7: is going to.
• 35:26
  Speaker 9: Sound crazy because the Padres have the greatest closer of
• 35:28
  Speaker 9: maybe of the last decade.
• 35:32
  Speaker 7: I lean towards the Brewers side of it.
• 35:34
  Speaker 9: Jacob Mizraowski is still there if they need him for
• 35:37
  Speaker 9: game five. From an offensive standpoint, you obviously have some
• 35:42
  Speaker 9: really bright stars on the Padres side, but Jackson Chirio's
• 35:45
  Speaker 9: star is as AJ so eloquently alluded yesterday on the open,
• 35:50
  Speaker 9: is getting brighter and brighter every time we see him swing.
• 35:54
  Speaker 9: I just think the Brewers are just so tough, man.
• 35:56
  Speaker 9: They're tougher than I thought, and I watched a lot
• 35:58
  Speaker 9: of Brewers baseball, and I didn't know that they were
• 36:00
  Speaker 9: as tough as they are. It's going to be a
• 36:02
  Speaker 9: big mountain to climb for the Padres, I think.
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: So, Wano, here's where I want to ask you. I
• 36:09
  Speaker 5: have two questions for you now.
• 36:11
  Speaker 6: One, how do the Padres piece together nine innings tonight?
• 36:14
  Speaker 5: I mean, if.
• 36:16
  Speaker 6: Walker Bueller doesn't give them three to four. And then
• 36:18
  Speaker 6: the other thing you said that you think the Brewers
• 36:20
  Speaker 6: are in better shot. We haven't seen Gasser. We haven't
• 36:22
  Speaker 6: seen Drohan. We haven't seen Patrick. We haven't seen a
• 36:26
  Speaker 6: lot of their guys. I mean, they've used Reba. They've
• 36:28
  Speaker 6: used Dio Hall. They've used Jojo Romero. And they've used McGill.
• 36:31
  Speaker 6: They haven't used any of their long guys. So they're
• 36:33
  Speaker 6: basically set up for a bullpen game, which I think
• 36:36
  Speaker 6: Gasser is going to start. I don't know that. They
• 36:37
  Speaker 6: haven't told us that. They haven't told anybody that yet.
• 36:40
  Speaker 6: I have a feeling that it's probably going to be Gasser.
• 36:42
  Speaker 6: But they haven't used any of their long guys. So
• 36:44
  Speaker 6: they have plenty of pitching to get through this game.
• 36:46
  Speaker 6: And then they have the Miz waiting for game five.
• 36:49
  Speaker 6: How do the Padres get nine innings? I mean, we're
• 36:52
  Speaker 6: going to talk about this for three hours before the game.
• 36:55
  Speaker 6: And we'll ask Craig Stammen, but what's the path for
• 36:57
  Speaker 6: them to get nine innings if Maura Hone's down and
• 37:00
  Speaker 6: Mason Miller's not back?
• 37:02
  Speaker 9: Yeah, and I would be surprised if Walker goes very deep,
• 37:06
  Speaker 9: which means, in my opinion, you're going to see Joe Musgrove,
• 37:09
  Speaker 9: you're going to see ray you're gonna see i mean
• 37:12
  Speaker 9: you're gonna have to see some of those uh starting
• 37:15
  Speaker 9: guys coming in and pitching in roles that maybe they're
• 37:18
  Speaker 9: not overly accustomed to i mean just they have to
• 37:21
  Speaker 9: right like you can't i don't know if you can
• 37:23
  Speaker 9: keep throwing bradley out there i don't know if you
• 37:25
  Speaker 9: can keep throwing matsui out there like it's just uh
• 37:29
  Speaker 9: i mean maybe you can and they'll probably answer the
• 37:32
  Speaker 9: bell but it's a lot to ask of those guys
• 37:34
  Speaker 9: and each time they step out there the other side's
• 37:37
  Speaker 9: getting a little bit more familiar with them the other
• 37:39
  Speaker 9: sides you know i i'm and i'm not taking away
• 37:43
  Speaker 9: anything from the padres because they can obviously uh they've
• 37:46
  Speaker 9: been you know they've had their backs against the wall
• 37:48
  Speaker 9: for most of this year honestly and they keep finding
• 37:52
  Speaker 9: ways to win games winning yesterday right there with with
• 37:55
  Speaker 9: their eighth inning guy out and their ninth inning guy
• 37:57
  Speaker 9: out and and really that locked seven seven through nine
• 38:01
  Speaker 9: out really um that was impressive i mean that was
• 38:04
  Speaker 9: a huge win for them obviously.
• 38:07
  Speaker 5: All right, so 100 years ago when you were a rookie,
• 38:09
  Speaker 5: you closed out some meaningful games. How different is it
• 38:14
  Speaker 5: for you? Because you also threw a complete game in
• 38:16
  Speaker 5: the postseason. How different is it for– I know you
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: weren't a starting pitcher in the big leagues at that point,
• 38:23
  Speaker 5: but you felt both. You felt what Michael King felt
• 38:26
  Speaker 5: in almost going complete game in game one, and then
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: you felt closing that game out. explain that from a
• 38:34
  Speaker 5: pitcher's standpoint, not the recovery, not, I know you didn't
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: do it in the same series, but explain that from
• 38:40
  Speaker 5: a pitcher's standpoint to us.
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 38:42
  Speaker 7: Well, and it's not for everyone.
• 38:43
  Speaker 9: Those last three are different. Um, whether it can't be quantified,
• 38:48
  Speaker 9: but they just are different. It's it takes, I mean,
• 38:50
  Speaker 9: last night you saw the Michael King, um, he got
• 38:53
  Speaker 9: through it, but it was, it was a little chippy there. And, um,
• 38:59
  Speaker 9: I think that the greatest pitchers that can handle that
• 39:02
  Speaker 9: role have an ability to minimize what's happening and just
• 39:08
  Speaker 9: focus on the one pitch that they're trying to make.
• 39:11
  Speaker 7: And they just do that over and over again.
• 39:13
  Speaker 9: And the guys that are really great in that ninth
• 39:15
  Speaker 9: inning situation are the ones that can really use the
• 39:18
  Speaker 9: crowd also. I really believe that. If it's a negative crowd,
• 39:23
  Speaker 9: you use it. If it's a positive crowd, you use it.
• 39:25
  Speaker 9: There's ways to do that. And the guys that can't
• 39:27
  Speaker 9: handle it, AJ, you've seen it. Kratzy, you've seen it.
• 39:31
  Speaker 9: Guys that get into big moments, they go, and they
• 39:35
  Speaker 9: just get a little tight.
• 39:36
  Speaker 7: Man, you can't be like that in that ninth inning.
• 39:38
  Speaker 9: So there's a way to, as the great Roy Halladay
• 39:44
  Speaker 9: used to say, just execute pitches, just one after the other.
• 39:47
  Speaker 9: And you keep it the same that way. But it
• 39:50
  Speaker 9: is different, man. But I'll tell you this, for Michael
• 39:53
  Speaker 9: King going forward, and I know he's had a few
• 39:56
  Speaker 9: saves before, but these big playoff moments like this, when
• 40:00
  Speaker 9: you get to pitch in the postseason, you get to
• 40:02
  Speaker 9: pitch in these closing games in the postseason, is one
• 40:06
  Speaker 9: of the most adrenaline rush things you could ever imagine
• 40:08
  Speaker 9: in your whole life. But also, as a starting pitcher,
• 40:12
  Speaker 9: if you're a really great starting pitcher, you are also
• 40:16
  Speaker 9: a good closer, right? You want to finish what you
• 40:19
  Speaker 9: start If you're a great starting pitcher, you're going to
• 40:21
  Speaker 9: go through. If you go through three times through, four
• 40:24
  Speaker 9: times through, you're going to have big moments where you
• 40:26
  Speaker 9: have to, you know, kind of fortitude has to be there.
• 40:29
  Speaker 9: You have to make a big pitch in a big situation.
• 40:31
  Speaker 9: You have to get out of a jam or two
• 40:33
  Speaker 9: every time you start most of the time. And, you know,
• 40:37
  Speaker 9: that's great teaches for when you get into the bullpen
• 40:42
  Speaker 9: closer role. And then as a closer, you know, when
• 40:45
  Speaker 9: you come in and all the pressure's on you, And
• 40:48
  Speaker 9: you have to make a pitch and you have to
• 40:50
  Speaker 9: go strike one right away and you can't go out
• 40:52
  Speaker 9: there and mess around.
• 40:53
  Speaker 7: And that's also really good for his.
• 40:56
  Speaker 9: Starting career because then you learn the urgency that is pitching.
• 40:59
  Speaker 9: You know, it's like it's got to be a race
• 41:01
  Speaker 9: to 0-2 every time. It's got to be a race
• 41:03
  Speaker 9: to two outs every time, three outs every time. You
• 41:06
  Speaker 9: just can't walk people in the postseason. You can't walk
• 41:08
  Speaker 9: people in the ninth inning. And that's a great teach
• 41:10
  Speaker 9: for starting pitchers.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: Adam, it seems like a lot of babies couldn't wait
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: until the postseason was over. Some guys taking some paternity leave,
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: of course. Walker Buehler's wife had her second child, Mason Miller. Obviously,
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: we're not certain if he's going to be back today.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: Max Fried's dealing with it, also with his girlfriend about
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: to have a baby as well. Has that whole narrative changed?
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: We were having a conversation earlier, Eric, AJ, and I,
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: about how back in the day you wouldn't dare leave
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: your team, certainly not in the postseason for the birth
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: of your child. It seems guys are changing their approach
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: a little bit. Is that more of a couple choice?
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: Is that a team choice? What's been your perception of it?
• 41:52
  Speaker 9: Well, it does seem like maybe guys need to do
• 41:56
  Speaker 9: a little better planning with that. You can't always plan
• 42:01
  Speaker 9: these things, right?
• 42:02
  Speaker 7: And we don't know the backstory. Maybe they've been trying
• 42:05
  Speaker 7: for a long time. I don't know. I don't know, right?
• 42:07
  Speaker 7: We don't know.
• 42:08
  Speaker 9: But it does seem like, you know, those offseason babies
• 42:11
  Speaker 9: are pretty, that's a pretty like normal thing for our
• 42:18
  Speaker 9: generation players. You know, you had a lot of November, December, January,
• 42:22
  Speaker 9: February babies.
• 42:25
  Speaker 7: But who am I to speak into that, right?
• 42:29
  Speaker 9: It does seem like there was an off day two
• 42:32
  Speaker 9: days ago, right? Like they got meds for that. Now,
• 42:34
  Speaker 9: I don't know.
• 42:35
  Speaker 7: I don't know.
• 42:38
  Speaker 9: But, you know, I know the Padres players were kind
• 42:41
  Speaker 9: of probably like, huh? But, you know, blessings to Mason
• 42:48
  Speaker 9: and his family. And hopefully everything came out great.
• 42:51
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  Speaker 6: MarathonRewards.com for details. Well, you know, for me, it's a
• 43:27
  Speaker 6: couple-by-couple decision, right? You can't tell, and to me, it's
• 43:31
  Speaker 6: also the woman's decision if she wants you there or not,
• 43:35
  Speaker 6: because if you asked my wife, she would have been like,
• 43:37
  Speaker 6: get the hell out of the room and go play
• 43:38
  Speaker 6: the baseball game, right? So, Because I don't want you
• 43:41
  Speaker 6: here annoying me while I'm going through all this stuff.
• 43:44
  Speaker 6: So it's a couple-by-couple decision. I don't know what Mason Miller,
• 43:48
  Speaker 6: what Max Reed, what they're doing.
• 43:50
  Speaker 5: And it's a personal choice. I get it. You're a child.
• 43:53
  Speaker 5: You do what you want.
• 43:53
  Speaker 6: And at the end of the day, the child is
• 43:55
  Speaker 6: obviously the most important thing in the world. But, yeah,
• 43:59
  Speaker 6: we were a little shocked last night about 30 minutes
• 44:00
  Speaker 6: before the game when it came over the loudspeaker that
• 44:03
  Speaker 6: Mason Miller has been placed on the paternity leave.
• 44:05
  Speaker 5: We had no idea. at all that he was, that he,
• 44:09
  Speaker 5: that there was a baby even close. We had no,
• 44:11
  Speaker 5: we had literally had no clue.
• 44:12
  Speaker 7: So, I mean, I hope it all, maybe he didn't either,
• 44:14
  Speaker 7: you know, I don't know. Maybe he didn't either. Maybe
• 44:16
  Speaker 7: it was in the last second.
• 44:17
  Speaker 5: I hope he knew that his wife was pregnant. I'm
• 44:19
  Speaker 5: going to say that.
• 44:19
  Speaker 6: I hope that he knew that she was pregnant. She
• 44:22
  Speaker 6: was somewhat close to being due. I would, I would
• 44:25
  Speaker 6: think that he knew that.
• 44:27
  Speaker 9: I was telling AJ last night when I was a rookie,
• 44:29
  Speaker 9: I found out it's, uh, September. I had a baby,
• 44:32
  Speaker 9: you know, uh, my first child and, uh, And that's
• 44:36
  Speaker 9: when we realized, oh, we need to have these analyses.
• 44:38
  Speaker 7: And maybe, hey, look, learn.
• 44:40
  Speaker 5: A lesson from Mason, too.
• 44:41
  Speaker 7: Learn the same way. But I found out I was
• 44:43
  Speaker 7: in Arizona. I was pitching.
• 44:45
  Speaker 9: I was in the back end of the bullpen at
• 44:47
  Speaker 9: that time, my rookie year. And I found out right
• 44:50
  Speaker 9: before the game that my wife was going into labor.
• 44:52
  Speaker 9: I went to Tony LaRusso. I said, hey, Tony, my
• 44:54
  Speaker 9: wife's gone into labor.
• 44:55
  Speaker 7: He goes, cool. You good for the eighth inning?
• 44:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 45:00
  Speaker 9: And I actually ended up pitching the ninth inning. I
• 45:02
  Speaker 9: pitched the last inning. And then Scott Rowland was amazing.
• 45:05
  Speaker 9: He put me on.
• 45:08
  Speaker 7: A– no, he didn't. He looked for a flight. Never mind.
• 45:11
  Speaker 9: I flew to Atlanta from Arizona. And then I flew
• 45:14
  Speaker 9: from Atlanta to St.
• 45:15
  Speaker 7: Louis.
• 45:16
  Speaker 9: And I walked in– as I walked in the delivery room,
• 45:19
  Speaker 9: my wife was pushing. So I got to take the
• 45:22
  Speaker 9: snap and barely made it. But, yeah, he was like, congratulations,
• 45:28
  Speaker 9: you got the ninth inning.
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: That's amazing.
• 45:30
  Speaker 5: What a story.
• 45:31
  Speaker 6: What a story.
• 45:32
  Speaker 5: That is exactly what you said, Alana. It's different, and
• 45:36
  Speaker 5: that's why I was going to ask you. Tony is
• 45:38
  Speaker 5: from that different generation. It's definitely there. So you got
• 45:42
  Speaker 5: there fourth and one. You got the snap. That's good.
• 45:46
  Speaker 7: I need to ask you. I saw the thing I
• 45:48
  Speaker 7: needed to see.
• 45:49
  Speaker 5: That's it. That's it.
• 45:51
  Speaker 4: That's it.
• 45:51
  Speaker 5: You were there for the tush-push, Bueno. And now you
• 45:55
  Speaker 5: have a lot of kids. So yes. And we don't
• 45:57
  Speaker 5: need to know how the planning goes. So that's to
• 46:01
  Speaker 5: each person. I got to ask you about the pitching
• 46:03
  Speaker 5: matchup that happened in the other series, the B Fox game.
• 46:07
  Speaker 5: Cause you guys have clearly have the a Fox game.
• 46:11
  Speaker 5: That's that, that pitching starting pitching matchup, AJ and I
• 46:14
  Speaker 5: are on here almost every day together. And we talk
• 46:17
  Speaker 5: about starting pitching is important. For a starting pitcher, do
• 46:21
  Speaker 5: you love to see the marquee starting pitching matchup? And
• 46:26
  Speaker 5: did that one not disappoint? Or were you like, oh,
• 46:28
  Speaker 5: I thought it was going to kind of go this way?
• 46:32
  Speaker 7: Oh, man.
• 46:32
  Speaker 9: I nerd out about ace pitchers pairing up in the postseason.
• 46:39
  Speaker 9: In the paper, it doesn't say Churrio versus Machado.
• 46:42
  Speaker 7: It says Churrio.
• 46:44
  Speaker 9: King versus Mizorowski or whatever it says, you know, like I,
• 46:47
  Speaker 9: I love that stuff, man.
• 46:49
  Speaker 7: And, and, uh, seeing Yamamoto is an absolute killer, especially
• 46:52
  Speaker 7: in the post is an absolute killer. Chris sale. We
• 46:55
  Speaker 7: know is an absolute monster.
• 46:57
  Speaker 9: I mean, this guy's had a complete, uh, reconstruction slash
• 47:04
  Speaker 9: redevelopment of his career where he's, I think maybe nastier
• 47:06
  Speaker 9: than he ever was right now. And, and in the
• 47:09
  Speaker 9: control of the baseball more than I've ever seen him, uh, just, uh,
• 47:13
  Speaker 9: two of the greatest pitchers of our time right now
• 47:16
  Speaker 9: going against each other. What Yamamoto did in the postseason
• 47:18
  Speaker 9: last year is something like I've never seen in my
• 47:19
  Speaker 9: entire life. I mean, I tell people all the time, look,
• 47:22
  Speaker 9: if you go eight shutout or whatever it was, one run,
• 47:24
  Speaker 9: and then the next day you go three to finish
• 47:27
  Speaker 9: off the World Series, the next day, you don't understand. Like,
• 47:30
  Speaker 9: the day after you take a playoff start, it feels
• 47:33
  Speaker 9: like you got ran over by an elephant.
• 47:35
  Speaker 7: You know, and it should. You know, you should put
• 47:39
  Speaker 7: it out there like that.
• 47:40
  Speaker 9: And then for him to take it the next day, uh,
• 47:43
  Speaker 9: And then he's got a 10-year contract behind it. I
• 47:47
  Speaker 9: couldn't have been more impressed with him last year. And
• 47:50
  Speaker 9: then yesterday, he just locked that back in again. He
• 47:54
  Speaker 9: just showed what a great competitor Yamamoto is. And then
• 47:57
  Speaker 9: you talk about Chris Sale. I mean, what more can
• 48:00
  Speaker 9: you say? The first, the wild card series, absolutely disgusting. Yesterday,
• 48:07
  Speaker 9: strikes out the first six guys. And I told AJ, look,
• 48:11
  Speaker 9: when you got Number one versus number one, it comes
• 48:14
  Speaker 9: down to a moment or two in the game. And
• 48:18
  Speaker 9: that's what the Dodgers said that one great inning where
• 48:20
  Speaker 9: they popped a couple of homers on him.
• 48:22
  Speaker 7: And that's really all they did. But that's how it is.
• 48:25
  Speaker 9: And that's what I love about number one versus number
• 48:28
  Speaker 9: one because every single moment matters.
• 48:31
  Speaker 7: And it happens like this.
• 48:33
  Speaker 9: And then the other guy goes, buddy, that's all I need.
• 48:36
  Speaker 9: That's all it takes, man.
• 48:39
  Speaker 7: You gave me two. Oh, you gave me three. Like,
• 48:43
  Speaker 7: nice knowing it's over.
• 48:44
  Speaker 9: And as soon as I looked at AJ and AJ
• 48:46
  Speaker 9: looked at me, once they got down three, three nothing
• 48:49
  Speaker 9: or whatever it was, we went, that's going to be very,
• 48:52
  Speaker 9: very tough for them to score three runs off.
• 48:56
  Speaker 5: True.
• 48:56
  Speaker 6: By the way, I'd be remiss about asking you this.
• 48:59
  Speaker 6: Why do you hate the Dodgers? I mean, the Brewers
• 49:02
  Speaker 6: and the Padres. Why do you hate both teams? Can
• 49:04
  Speaker 6: you explain why you hate every team that we cover
• 49:07
  Speaker 6: all the time? It is like constant. I mean, it's
• 49:10
  Speaker 6: unbelievable how much hate you have for both teams. I
• 49:12
  Speaker 6: feel like you're kind of saying both teams are great,
• 49:15
  Speaker 6: but why do you hate both teams?
• 49:18
  Speaker 9: You showed me a couple of hilarious tweets. Now, I
• 49:20
  Speaker 9: don't look at tweets. I don't look at them because
• 49:23
  Speaker 9: it never was good for me. So I've made a
• 49:26
  Speaker 9: conscious effort to never look at responses. But that is
• 49:29
  Speaker 9: so on brand for you to get in there and
• 49:31
  Speaker 9: chum it up with them.
• 49:31
  Speaker 7: I love it so much about you, AJ, that you
• 49:33
  Speaker 7: do that.
• 49:34
  Speaker 9: But he showed me a hilarious one yesterday and said, AJ,
• 49:38
  Speaker 9: it's really hard to listen to you uh, call this to,
• 49:42
  Speaker 9: to your whole booth, call this series when you're so
• 49:45
  Speaker 9: biased for the brewers. And then he, he scrolls over
• 49:48
  Speaker 9: one tweet and it says, AJ, it's so hard for
• 49:52
  Speaker 9: me to listen to your booth, call this series because
• 49:54
  Speaker 9: you're so biased for the Padres. And it was like,
• 49:57
  Speaker 9: you know, like that's when you know, you're doing a
• 50:00
  Speaker 9: good job. I looked at AJ and I went, all right,
• 50:01
  Speaker 9: we're nailing it because if both sides hate you, that
• 50:04
  Speaker 9: means you're being unbiased.
• 50:05
  Speaker 4: I think.
• 50:06
  Speaker 5: That is, that is AJ's like, that is his lane.
• 50:09
  Speaker 5: If there are both teams fans hating on him, he's like,
• 50:13
  Speaker 5: I'm going to be the best. All right, Adam, I got,
• 50:16
  Speaker 5: I got two questions and I can only ask this
• 50:19
  Speaker 5: because we're doing Fox one right now on every first
• 50:22
  Speaker 5: question is on every three man team. There's a great
• 50:24
  Speaker 5: play by play guy, a great analyst and the best looking.
• 50:29
  Speaker 5: So that's the first question you need. You need to
• 50:32
  Speaker 5: rate them. Okay. Who's the, who's the best play by
• 50:35
  Speaker 5: play guy.
• 50:38
  Speaker 7: Well, Adam Amin is amazing.
• 50:41
  Speaker 5: Okay. So that's your three. That's one of three. Now
• 50:44
  Speaker 5: who's the best of the other two? Who's the best
• 50:47
  Speaker 5: looking and who's the best analyst?
• 50:50
  Speaker 7: AJ's the best analyst. I'm the best looking.
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 50:52
  Speaker 5: I'll take that. I'll take that. Okay. But now this
• 50:56
  Speaker 5: is where the rubber meets the road. The toughest question
• 50:58
  Speaker 5: you'll get all day. Of the three of you in
• 51:01
  Speaker 5: the booth, who eats the most? Eats the most? Eats
• 51:06
  Speaker 5: the most.
• 51:07
  Speaker 7: During the game me for.
• 51:09
  Speaker 5: Sure because you still have that baby body you still
• 51:12
  Speaker 5: you're just newly retired aj he has to watch his
• 51:16
  Speaker 5: calories no that's not true.
• 51:18
  Speaker 9: Back is what my daughters tell me hey that's not
• 51:21
  Speaker 9: true i'm a big back a big back okay that's
• 51:26
  Speaker 9: what my my daughters are like every time i start
• 51:28
  Speaker 9: eating they're like you're a big back wow uh but
• 51:31
  Speaker 9: yeah i mean we got a little we got a
• 51:32
  Speaker 9: little to-go box or whatever full of donuts yesterday they're
• 51:35
  Speaker 9: little mini donuts right.
• 51:38
  Speaker 7: AJ had one or two.
• 51:40
  Speaker 9: And then we got some tacos, like some sushi taco
• 51:43
  Speaker 9: things brought to us.
• 51:44
  Speaker 7: And then we had a pretzel. We get so much
• 51:47
  Speaker 7: food brought to us. It is crazy. I try it all, man.
• 51:50
  Speaker 9: Like, look, I'll work it off. The other day I
• 51:54
  Speaker 9: played Aaron Hills. I walked 11,803 steps. You know what
• 51:57
  Speaker 9: I mean? I'll go to the gym. I'll go to
• 52:00
  Speaker 9: the gym a couple times a week.
• 52:02
  Speaker 7: We'll work it off. I'll play some golf. We'll work
• 52:03
  Speaker 7: it off.
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: Props not get in the cart, Adam. Props walk in
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: the course. Proud of you. All right, Adam, I know
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: you've got to get going.
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: Another interview awaits for you. Appreciate it. We'll hear you
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: on the call, certainly. And be sure to check him
• 52:16
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• 52:44
  Speaker 1: Kike Hernandez, guys, now up to 17 homers in the
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: playoffs during his career. Look at the company that he keeps.
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: Aaron Judge, Jim Tomey, and David Ortiz. There's just something
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: about October when it comes to Kike. Kike-tober, if you will. AJ,
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: I'll start with you. Tell me a player that you've
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: worked with, played with, whatever, or played against that once
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: the calendar switched to October, he was just a different dude.
• 53:07
  Speaker 6: Well, it was David. David was the one guy that was,
• 53:10
  Speaker 6: since the time I played with him in A-ball, he
• 53:12
  Speaker 6: lived for those moments. The difference is Kike's in the
• 53:15
  Speaker 6: playoffs and they make a deep playoff run every year.
• 53:17
  Speaker 6: And every time he gets up, I love all the
• 53:19
  Speaker 6: tweets and all the Instagram stuff. Like they put him
• 53:21
  Speaker 6: in a box and on ice until about the end
• 53:24
  Speaker 6: of September. And they're like, oh, it's almost October. And
• 53:26
  Speaker 6: he wakes up and he's a monster in October. So,
• 53:30
  Speaker 6: I mean, listen, we talked about a little bit with Wano.
• 53:32
  Speaker 6: Some guys live for these moments. And I'm sure, Crouch,
• 53:35
  Speaker 6: you played with great players that didn't want to be
• 53:37
  Speaker 6: up in huge situations. And then you played with this guy.
• 53:41
  Speaker 6: who was maybe not the best player on the team.
• 53:43
  Speaker 6: But in those moments, you're like, I want that dude
• 53:45
  Speaker 6: up to the plate. And Kike is one of those guys.
• 53:49
  Speaker 5: Even the at-bats, like every at-bat, it just looked like
• 53:52
  Speaker 5: he was ready to do damage against Sale. Like he
• 53:55
  Speaker 5: just was catching the ball out in front more than
• 53:57
  Speaker 5: the guys that were playing every day. I mean, Sale's
• 54:01
  Speaker 5: never an easy at-bat. And he made it look like
• 54:04
  Speaker 5: an easy at-bat. And I had to stay and watch
• 54:08
  Speaker 5: his post-game interview. And it was exactly like that. We've
• 54:10
  Speaker 5: all seen from Kike the whole time. He's like, kind
• 54:14
  Speaker 5: of got lucky. Don't really want to talk about it.
• 54:19
  Speaker 5: But it's not just Kike. The manager put him in
• 54:22
  Speaker 5: that spot and trusted him. Trust is a huge thing
• 54:25
  Speaker 5: for confidence.
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: Brewers have announced finally their starter for tonight. Left-hander A.J.,
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: you had said it. You guys hadn't even seen Robert
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: Gasser yet. He's starting tonight in game four. Do you
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: like this move?
• 54:38
  Speaker 5: Nailed it, by the way. Nailed it.
• 54:41
  Speaker 6: Yeah, he was the most effective guy in the second
• 54:43
  Speaker 6: half for him. If you look at the second half numbers,
• 54:45
  Speaker 6: Harrison had a great first half, kind of fell off
• 54:47
  Speaker 6: in the second half. Gasser was really good in the
• 54:49
  Speaker 6: second half. And listen, they got lots of length. I mean,
• 54:52
  Speaker 6: they have Harrison, Gasser, Patrick, Drohan. they have lots and
• 54:56
  Speaker 6: lots of length down there. And, you know, they didn't
• 54:58
  Speaker 6: use McGill last night.
• 54:59
  Speaker 5: They use a rebate.
• 55:01
  Speaker 6: They use deal hall and Romero. So they have lefties,
• 55:03
  Speaker 6: they have righties, they have their closer. The Brewers pitching
• 55:07
  Speaker 6: staff is, I mean, if you look at it from
• 55:08
  Speaker 6: the outside in a much better spot than where the
• 55:11
  Speaker 6: Padres is, they use King last night. They use Rodriguez again.
• 55:15
  Speaker 6: They use Matsui again. Is Morajon available? Will Mason Miller
• 55:19
  Speaker 6: be there? Yeah. I think the, Brewers are in a
• 55:22
  Speaker 6: much better spot as far as being able to mix
• 55:25
  Speaker 6: and match with their pitchers. And one thing I've learned
• 55:27
  Speaker 6: from Pat Murphy over doing these last three games with
• 55:29
  Speaker 6: him is he likes guys that can give him multiple innings.
• 55:31
  Speaker 6: He's got lots of those guys to match up that
• 55:34
  Speaker 6: can get righties and lefties out. And they also have
• 55:36
  Speaker 6: done this in the past, meaning they've pitched out of
• 55:39
  Speaker 6: the bullpen in the past. So that gives them an
• 55:41
  Speaker 6: advantage in some starters who have never done this before.
• 55:44
  Speaker 5: AJ, obviously you think Gasser starts, then at some point
• 55:48
  Speaker 5: they go to O'Reilly, then at some point, you know,
• 55:50
  Speaker 5: if you go back to a lefty and it's not
• 55:51
  Speaker 5: Ashby yet, do you think Murph puts Harrison in a game?
• 55:56
  Speaker 5: Or not even do you think he does, more so
• 56:00
  Speaker 5: what type of situation with a guy that you have
• 56:03
  Speaker 5: to have a minimum of three batters that has shown
• 56:06
  Speaker 5: in the second half might not have it, but you
• 56:09
  Speaker 5: want that one chance of a spark of first half
• 56:12
  Speaker 5: Kyle Harrison and absolutely blown doors for three outs.
• 56:17
  Speaker 6: Murphy's going to put him in the best situation. But
• 56:19
  Speaker 6: what does that mean? I don't know because I don't
• 56:23
  Speaker 6: know what that's– it depends on the score. The scoreboard
• 56:25
  Speaker 6: will dictate it. I forgot Ashby didn't pitch last night either.
• 56:29
  Speaker 6: So they have him available, and he's a multi-inning guy, right?
• 56:32
  Speaker 6: He can get righties and lefties out. So they have
• 56:34
  Speaker 6: pretty much all their crew, the brew crew, lined up
• 56:37
  Speaker 6: to come in and try to finish this series. Listen,
• 56:39
  Speaker 6: I know this about Pat Murphy. He wants to win
• 56:41
  Speaker 6: this game and get it over with and move on.
• 56:44
  Speaker 6: He is going to do everything in his power to
• 56:45
  Speaker 6: give himself the best matchups and to win this game.
• 56:49
  Speaker 6: He doesn't want to go back to Milwaukee. He doesn't
• 56:51
  Speaker 6: want to have to pitch Jacob Mizorowski in game five.
• 56:54
  Speaker 6: He wants this series over with now, and he will
• 56:56
  Speaker 6: do everything in his power to get it over with now.
• 56:58
  Speaker 6: So if Kyle Harrison doesn't pitch, you know what? It
• 57:01
  Speaker 6: ain't about feelings. We say this all the time. It
• 57:03
  Speaker 6: ain't about feelings. It's about winning the game. So if
• 57:06
  Speaker 6: he doesn't pitch, he'll hopefully be ready for the LCS,
• 57:08
  Speaker 6: but he's going to mix and match and deploy these
• 57:11
  Speaker 6: guys any way he can to win this game.
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: All right, guys, let's hit the hot corner as we
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: dive into the Yankees-Rays game tonight. Aaron Boone said on
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: Tuesday's off day that he was considering a couple of
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: things in terms of lineup changes. Eric, do you think
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: we will see any.
• 57:33
  Speaker 4: Of those changes?
• 57:35
  Speaker 5: Man, ever since I asked the question yesterday of Brendan Cuddy,
• 57:42
  Speaker 5: was that asked of Aaron Boone and it wasn't? I
• 57:45
  Speaker 5: know Boone is definitely thinking about this. but will he
• 57:50
  Speaker 5: make the move? And then we watched the Dodgers game
• 57:52
  Speaker 5: last night where they put Miguel Rojas in, they put
• 57:56
  Speaker 5: Kike Hernandez in, and the Dodgers win. I think Aaron
• 58:00
  Speaker 5: Boone needs to make some type of move like that.
• 58:03
  Speaker 5: And this guy who has loved, the organization has loved
• 58:06
  Speaker 5: for a long time, our guy who used to play
• 58:11
  Speaker 5: shortstop for the Yankees, and now he is a second baseman,
• 58:16
  Speaker 5: and our guy– who's playing second base, and Jazz maybe
• 58:20
  Speaker 5: had a little bit of a brain fart. So does
• 58:22
  Speaker 5: he go to Volpe in this spot? I don't know,
• 58:28
  Speaker 5: but I think it will hinge if the Yankees stay
• 58:31
  Speaker 5: in this series or not.
• 58:34
  Speaker 6: I just don't know where he goes. Volpe's really the
• 58:36
  Speaker 6: only move he can make. I don't know what else
• 58:39
  Speaker 6: he can do. They're kind of hamstrung by their roster.
• 58:42
  Speaker 6: What else can he do besides put Volpe in?
• 58:45
  Speaker 5: I think Jason Dominguez is out. Austin Wells is catching.
• 58:50
  Speaker 5: Put Goldschmidt in? So that's where I think– I mean,
• 58:53
  Speaker 5: what are you going to do? Garcia gives them at
• 58:58
  Speaker 5: bats against a guy like Nick Martinez who throws strikes.
• 59:01
  Speaker 5: Garcia's issue is he swings at everything, and Nick Martinez
• 59:04
  Speaker 5: throws everything in the zone. So I think that's a
• 59:07
  Speaker 5: good matchup, and I love Goldie. in there. I get it.
• 59:11
  Speaker 5: They've only used him against lefties. A majority of his
• 59:14
  Speaker 5: success has been against lefties. But if I'm going to
• 59:17
  Speaker 5: go down and I have to make a change, to
• 59:19
  Speaker 5: me that's where it is. It's Goldie and Anthony Volpe
• 59:23
  Speaker 5: in the game. I'm not saying it's the right choice
• 59:25
  Speaker 5: and that it would work. I'm saying it's a choice
• 59:27
  Speaker 5: that I would make.
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: Changing something up.
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: So far he's used eight lefties and George Lombard Jr.
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: in the series, but that tilt, guys, that platoon has
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: not worked. The Yanks have scored just twice, both on
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: Rice solo home runs. They own a 3-6-9 OPS, and
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: they are striking out more than they typically do.
• 59:47
  Speaker 5: Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. Just what you were saying there,
• 59:51
  Speaker 5: it's a lot of lefties. What did we talk about
• 59:53
  Speaker 5: with the Rays earlier in like a week or two
• 59:56
  Speaker 5: ago that they use more change-ups than any team normally
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 5: that neutralizes the platoon advantage, and so they've been using that.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 5: So maybe it's time to like– and I get it.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 5: They're throwing some right-on-right, left-on-left changeups too. I understand that.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 5: But you know what? If you keep getting punched with jabs,
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 5: you got to take a shot. Right now, they got
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 5: to take a shot at a haymaker and possibly Goldschmidt,
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 5: a veteran at bat that he's going to give this team.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 5: He might not get a hit, but he may work
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 5: Nick Martinez long enough that another guy gets a hit.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 5: Like I just– I'm not seeing enough competitive at-bats, and
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 5: I think that's what Goldie does. Not as much Volpe,
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 5: but I think that's what Goldie does, and that's where
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 5: I feel like something has to change. Not the whole lineup,
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 5: but just something.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: AJ, do you put Caballero at third instead of Ryan McMahon?
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: McMahon right now just one for seven.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: In the series.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: Again, nobody's sitting for the Yankees. I'm certainly not putting
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: this all on Ryan McMahon. He did have that blunder, obviously,
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: early on in the game, in game two. Is that
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: a change that you would make, or would that even
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: do anything, in your opinion?
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 5: I don't even think that does anything, to be honest.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 6: McMahon, they've rode with McMahon the whole year because of
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 6: his defense.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 5: He made a mistake. Who cares?
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 6: Listen, I've booted balls. Everyone's made a mistake here. uh,
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 6: at some time in their life, uh, as far as defensively,
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 6: it wasn't like a mental error. It was just a,
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 6: took a funky hobby, messed it up and it happens.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 6: Um, I don't think that, I don't think that that's
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 6: the answer.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 5: I mean, I think we, I don't, I think we
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 5: talked about this. Gosh, I've done a lot of talking lately.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 6: Um, but when you run a team of all lefties
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 6: out there and it's lefty, lefty, lefty, and I thought
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 6: we were talking about with, with Freddie Peralta the other
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 6: day and how, When you see eight lefties, it just
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 6: sets your sights in a certain spot, and you know, like,
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 6: I've got to get locked in. If you're Nick Martinez,
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 6: you're like, I've got to get locked into my changeup,
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 6: down and away, constantly to eight guys. I eat out
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 6: of nine. The only guy that's running up there is
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 6: George Lombard. And honestly, I mean, I think George Lombard
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 6: is going to be a great player. I think right
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 6: now he doesn't really scare anybody in this lineup. It's
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 6: the lefties you worry about.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 5: It's Rice. It's even Wells. It's Garcia. It's Cody Bellinger.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 5: It's those guys that scare you.
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  Speaker 6: So you think as a pitcher– Man, if I can
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 6: get myself locked into all lefties and I have to
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 6: basically just throw in certain lanes, Mark Burley used to
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 6: say it all the time, teams that threw all righties
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 6: against him, he's like, I'm going to carve today because
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 6: I don't have to worry about a lefty and just
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 6: changing my sights.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: I think maybe mixing up would help, but much like
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 6: the Guardians, they've got to find some way to get
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 6: some hits.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 5: Mm-hmm. The difference is the chance of thump is there,
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 5: unlike the Guardians. True, true, true. But I get your analogy.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 5: To me, the McMahons specifically, that is a different situation.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 5: That is gold glove defense at third. Did he make
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 5: an error?
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 5: Like AJ said, everybody makes errors. It happens. Don't make
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 5: a rash decision because he made a physical error. To me,
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 5: my choice of sitting Jazz– To me, that's a mental error.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 5: That's not a physical error. He went and made an
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 5: incredible play by barehanding that ball. Okay, that's it. Like
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 5: McMahon misread the hop or it stayed down on him
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 5: instead of coming up. I trust, and especially third base,
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 5: is such a valuable position. As much as short is
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 5: a valuable position, third base, those plays aren't made. There's
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 5: a lot of damage down that line. That's why you
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 5: have guys like Chapman winning platinum gloves, Nolan Arenado. You know,
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 5: that value at third is a lot different than just saying,
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 5: we got to throw someone else in there because we're
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 5: not hitting. That I think is a different situation.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 6: You can't take jazz out because you'll hurt his feelings.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 5: Don't you remember? Don't you remember?
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 6: If I don't start game one, I'm going to be
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 6: so upset. Like, dude, it's about winning. And if you're
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 6: not the right guy to win the game, then you're
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 6: not the right guy. I mean, But you can't take
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 6: Jazz out. Don't you put that in Jazz Chisholm's mind
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 6: that he might not play because.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 5: You're going to hurt his feelings, Eric. We're 164 games
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 5: past that. If that's what it is, it didn't just
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 5: happen in the playoffs. It didn't just like, sorry, this
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 5: may be the most glaring difference between the Yankees and
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 5: the Dodgers. I'm not even going to talk about talent
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 5: or injuries. I'm not going to talk about that. If
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 5: that is the case, if somebody's feelings are hurt because
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 5: they're not playing, This team is cooked anyway. I don't
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 5: care if it's the Guardians. I don't care if it's
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 5: the White Sox. I don't care if it's the Yankees,
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 5: the Dodgers. If your feelings are hurt because you're not
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 5: playing in the playoffs, your team is cooked because you're
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 5: hurting your team.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: It's about being selfless versus selfish. That's a conversation for
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: another time. Max Freed, his girlfriend, I believe, is having
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: a baby soon. And he did say that regardless of
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: what happens today, he will be the starter for the
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: New York Yankees. His plan will not change with a
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: baby on the way. I've got a really supportive family
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: that understands that this is my job. and it's not
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: going to affect what happens tomorrow. So kind of circling
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: back gentlemen to the conversation we had with Mr. Adam
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: Wainwright earlier, uh, with Fox one, again, this is a
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: personal decision, correct? Uh, I'm assuming he had the conversation
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: with his girlfriend that he's not going to be there
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: tonight if she goes into labor, AJ.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 6: I mean, this is a, and again, I'll say this again.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 6: This is a, this is more of a, listen, as
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 6: a guy, we all want to be there.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 6: I was there for both the birth of my church,
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 6: both birds and my children.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 5: Okay. Um, One was in the off season. One was
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 5: supposed to be in on an off day. And we
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 5: ended up having a makeup game.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 6: And I remember sitting there watching the game on TV
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 6: while my wife was giving birth. OK, but and then
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 6: we had this conversation last night and I asked my wife,
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 6: I said, hey, if this happened to you, what would
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 6: you do?
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 5: And she's like, oh, I'd tell you to go to
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 5: the game. OK, fine. That's her decision. It's not my decision.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 6: I'll be there if you want me to be with
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 6: it and deliver with you. And that's what I believe.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 6: Then that's where I'm going to be. If you want me,
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 6: if you say, hey, go to the game, I'll be
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 6: okay without you. And, you know, I would, of course, say, no, no, no,
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 6: I'll be with you. And then she would argue and say, no, no,
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 6: go to the game. I would go to the game, okay,
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 6: and play the game. Probably be a little distracted.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 5: Okay, fine.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 6: But if Max Reed's girlfriend says, hey, you go to
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 6: the game, and then he has support from his family
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 6: and his girlfriend who's giving birth, then do it. Mason
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 6: Miller made a different decision. Again, that's his decision. We
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 6: can't criticize decisions of family members. in the rest of
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 6: your life outside of baseball. I know we all want
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 6: to say, Oh, he should have been there. He should
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 6: have been this and that, and he should have been
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 6: there for his team.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 5: But you know what?
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 6: He made the decision that he feels is right. Cause
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 6: you know what he has to do for the rest
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 6: of his life. Once his baseball career is over, he
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 6: has to live with his wife and he has to
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 6: live with his children. So that's a decision that he
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 6: made as a family. So it's, you can't criticize this.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 6: It's the decision that each person makes and it's individual.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 6: And it honestly crowds at the end of the day,
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 6: it comes down to, to the woman who's giving birth.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 6: If she wants you there, then you better be there.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 6: If she says it's okay, and you feel like it's
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 6: the right decision with you and your family, then you
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 6: go to the game.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 5: Yes, you do. Because as much as all these guys
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 5: we're talking about are superstars, when a wife, when a
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 5: girlfriend is giving birth to your first or your fifth child,
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 5: they are the superstar. And I'm not saying that Lisa's
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 5: decision to have you go to the field is different
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 5: than Max Freed's girlfriend's decision or– Or Mason Miller's wife's decision.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 5: It is each individual one and there is so much.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 5: This side is the answer and this side is the answer.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 5: And you know what? Everybody else in between, zip your
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 5: lips until you're in that moment. You have no opinion
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 5: on the people who say go to the field and
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 5: you have no opinion on the people who who stay
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 5: and be with their family. That's it. I've seen it
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 5: so many different ways. I saw a guy, a really
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 5: good player, his wife gave birth at 10 in the morning.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 5: He was at the game that night because the hospital
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 5: was right down the street from the field. The same season,
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 5: another wife gives birth and he's at the same hospital
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 5: for three straight days, doesn't show up to the field.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 5: Both good players, both on the same team, both pushing
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 5: for The goal of winning a World Series, two completely
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 5: different choices.
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: How I keep thinking in my head is that if
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: she said it's okay to go, every argument, and again,
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: I'm not in Lisa's mind or in her shoes, obviously,
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: but every argument for the rest.
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 2: Of time, she's going to be like, remember when you
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 2: worked at the hospital?
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 5: No, no.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 6: First of all, she would never do that, but I mean,
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 6: that's why you let her make the decision.
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 5: It's her decision. If I make that decision and I'm wrong.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 6: If I make that decision, then she has that right.
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 6: But if she makes that decision, then she's wrong. as
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 6: soon as she goes down that road, I'm like, Oh, Nope,
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 6: you can't say that because you made the decision.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 5: I was there.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: But I really wanted you there, even though I said
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: it was okay.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 5: For you to go. How could you listen to me?
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 5: You need to know what I'm thinking. My son was born–
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 5: my first son was born November 22nd, off-season baby. Good
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 5: for me. Yeah, yeah, whatever. Ohio State was ranked one,
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 5: and Michigan was ranked two, and they were playing at
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 5: Ohio State. I lived in Virginia. My buddy's wife was the–
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 5: woman who would get the coach as they're running off
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 5: the field to give them the interview, whoever the interviewer was.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 5: And she said, I have one more spot. You and
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 5: Christian can come onto the field and you'll be on
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 5: the field for Ohio State, Michigan, one versus two, epic game.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 5: And the game was in November at some point. And
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 5: our fighter jets were already on high alert that Sarah
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 5: was going to go into labor at any time So
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 5: I said, no, I'm not going to maybe one of
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 5: the most historic college football games that there will ever be,
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 5: and I will not be on the field for it.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 5: That was the right choice.
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 6: For your family, yes. There's the difference between you and me, Crouchy,
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 6: because when my son was born was when Florida beat
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 6: Ohio State in the national championship.
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 5: Game in football.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 6: And my wife, this was mid-January, beginning of January, like
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 6: January 10th, and my son was born February 5th. So
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 6: she's about four weeks out and I'm like, oh, our
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 6: asses are going to Phoenix to watch this game with
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 6: or without you.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 5: And she's like, oh, I'm going.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 6: So she flew out there and, you know, she gets
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 6: on the plane.
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 5: She's like, oh, with the baby. Yeah.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 6: And the flight attendant's like, what are you doing? She's like, yeah,
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 6: like three weeks. Like, you know, you're not supposed to
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 6: be flying. She's like, oh, I'm going to this game.
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 6: And so we went to the game. There you go.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 5: That's not the difference between me and you. That's the
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 5: difference between Lisa and Sarah. Sarah will be like, whatever, football,
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 5: who cares? Lisa, clearly a diehard Florida fan when she
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 5: sees all those checks. Even though she went to Florida State, exactly. Wow,
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 5: you converted her. No, not exactly. Okay.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: Individual decision.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: Best of luck to all the dads and the babies
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: and the mamas bringing the life into the world.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: It's time now to slap hands.
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: Sarah Langs, the great Sarah Langs, reminding us, gentlemen, that
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: today is Mookie Betts' birthday. Happy birthday to Marcus Lynn Betts.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: Number 50 is what, 35, 34? I actually don't even
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: know how old he is, but happy birthday to him.
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 5: It doesn't matter.
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter, right? This will be the fourth time.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 3: I don't.
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 2: I really don't.
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: I really don't.
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 6: You probably sent him a birthday card, a birthday present,
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 6: a cake, everything.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 5: That's cute.
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: That would imply I would have his home address, and
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: I don't. I mean, I guess I could send it
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: to the field, but I've never done that either.
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 2: This is insane.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: The White Sox Fall Classic Burger looks redonkulous. Two pounds
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: of beef you got, would you? Topped with American cheese, pickles, lettuce, tomato,
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: and squash. AJ, what's squash mayo?
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 6: Never heard of it, but I guarantee you Adam Wainwright
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 6: could eat the whole thing.
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 2: In one sitting?
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 5: I've seen him. Trust me.
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 6: People are like, you eat a lot. I'm like, have
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 6: you seen the guy next to me?
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  Speaker 5: Right there. He eats a lot.
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