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Fair Territory: ALCS Game 6 preview, Brewers wait, Dodgers decisions, Orioles new General Manager · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Welcome, everyone, to a normal Monday edition of Fair Territory.
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  Speaker 1: I say normal because our schedule in postseason is always
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  Speaker 1: disrupted by travel, games, etc. So this is actually the
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  Speaker 1: day we're supposed to do the show. We're doing the show. Now,
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  Speaker 1: we have some news this morning. Orioles hiring from the
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  Speaker 1: Cubs Jared Banner to be their general manager. He's going
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  Speaker 1: to work under Mike Elias, but they've been looking for
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  Speaker 1: a GM for, I don't know, over a year. And
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  Speaker 1: then at the end of the season, Elias said, acknowledged
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  Speaker 1: they need to beef up their front office, need to
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  Speaker 1: hire people from the outside, need to beef up their
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  Speaker 1: analytics department as well. Here they go. Jared Banner coming
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  Speaker 1: from the Cubs. One of the most notable things he's
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  Speaker 1: known for is prior to the Cubs working for the Mets.
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  Speaker 1: And when the Cubs acquired Pete Crow Armstrong from the
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  Speaker 1: Mets in the Javier Baez trade, Banner was one of
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  Speaker 1: the guys who had an intimate knowledge of Pete Crow
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  Speaker 1: Armstrong's skill set and, of course, recommended him. So that's
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  Speaker 1: good on his record for sure, and the Orioles making
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  Speaker 1: this move. We are expecting any day now, maybe even today,
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  Speaker 1: the A's are going to name their next head of
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  Speaker 1: baseball operations. Taylor Smith from the Red Sox seems to
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  Speaker 1: be the frontrunner there, but that process has had some
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  Speaker 1: twists and turns already, so we shall see how it goes.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway... These are minor things compared to what's going
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  Speaker 1: on in the world of baseball right now. The postseason,
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  Speaker 1: the ALCS, the Rays taking a three games to two
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  Speaker 1: lead yesterday as the series returns to the trop without
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  Speaker 1: an off day due to the rain out. Series resumes tonight.
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  Speaker 1: And really, the way it looks, everything is tilting in
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  Speaker 1: the Rays' favor. In that case, often in baseball, it's
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  Speaker 1: dangerous to look at it that way. And maybe it
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  Speaker 1: will tilt the other way. But let's go through it.
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  Speaker 1: Freddy Peralta starts tonight for the Rays, going against a
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  Speaker 1: bullpen game for Cleveland, really a third straight bullpen game.
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  Speaker 1: Freddy Peralta, last eight appearances, 0.79 ERA. That includes his
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  Speaker 1: two-thirds of an inning of relief in game four on Friday.
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  Speaker 1: In this series, he has allowed four hits, not four runs,
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  Speaker 1: four hits in six and two-thirds innings. Now, there is
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  Speaker 1: some batted ball luck in this streak, at least based
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  Speaker 1: on his Babbitt, but at the same time, 0.79 ERA
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  Speaker 1: in eight appearances is a 0.79 ERA in eight appearances.
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  Speaker 1: Regression might come, might even come today, but he's not
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  Speaker 1: facing the most dynamic offense either. Now, the Guardians are
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  Speaker 1: in a bit of a pickle here. As I said,
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  Speaker 1: what this is today is essentially a third straight bullpen game,
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  Speaker 1: in part because Parker Messick didn't go very deep into
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  Speaker 1: that game yesterday. And yesterday... The way it turned out, Cebrowski, Gattis,
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  Speaker 1: and Cade Smith all end up working more than an inning.
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  Speaker 1: So their bullpen is taxed. It's been taxed for some
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  Speaker 1: time now. And have they survived this? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: The way generally to survive this is to have an
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  Speaker 1: offensive breakout that would not seem to be necessarily in
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  Speaker 1: the cards. The Rays at the Trop this season, including playoffs,
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  Speaker 1: are now 58-27. 58-27. That's really good. And I guess
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  Speaker 1: Guardians fans are looking at this and saying, well, we
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  Speaker 1: didn't go about it right in game four with the
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  Speaker 1: bullpen the way it was used. We should have chased
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  Speaker 1: that game a little bit bigger or in a little
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  Speaker 1: bit bigger way than we did. Maybe stuck with Foster
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  Speaker 1: Griffin longer. And then yesterday, of course, it looks like
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  Speaker 1: the decision to start Messick backfired. He's on normal rest.
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  Speaker 1: He's at 200 innings. He's never been close to that.
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  Speaker 1: And Yeah, you can look at it that way. And
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  Speaker 1: all these things do have some validity to them. But really,
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  Speaker 1: the problem for the Guardians, as was the problem for
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers in the NLCS, comes down to the fact
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  Speaker 1: that they haven't hit. And I want to show you something, too,
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  Speaker 1: with regard to Parker Messick and really a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the innings or the starters that are remaining in this postseason.
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  Speaker 1: Their innings are mounting. They are all at levels where
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  Speaker 1: they haven't been before. I'm going to show you right here.
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  Speaker 1: All right, now these totals for 2026 include the minor leagues,
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  Speaker 1: include the postseason for both years, actually, 2025 and 26.
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  Speaker 1: So keep that in mind, but they're totals. Mizorowski's gone
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  Speaker 1: from 141 and a third to 183. Logan Henderson from
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  Speaker 1: 103 to 131 and a third. Not a terribly big
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  Speaker 1: jump in his case, but he has had a lengthy
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  Speaker 1: injury history. Messick, 138 last year to 200. Rasmussen, 138.
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  Speaker 1: who has pitched extremely well and was extremely good again yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: 150 to 193. So you see there that most of
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  Speaker 1: these guys are in uncharted territory. And for Mizorowski and Henderson,
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  Speaker 1: you would think this week-long layoff for the Brewers will
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  Speaker 1: do them good. It should be that way, but it
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  Speaker 1: could be also that their arms really are tired right
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  Speaker 1: now and one week off is not necessarily going to
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  Speaker 1: help all that much. Can't hurt. No question, but I
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  Speaker 1: don't know that it will help. So we'll see how
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  Speaker 1: this plays out in St. Petersburg tonight, but certainly the
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  Speaker 1: Rays have an advantage here. They're going home for the
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  Speaker 1: next two games if necessary. They've got Freddy Peralta on
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  Speaker 1: the mound. They've got the pitching edge over the Guardians.
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  Speaker 1: All right, after the last out, flip over to the
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  Speaker 1: Foul Territory YouTube channel for a live postgame show. A.J. Pruszynski,
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  Speaker 1: Todd Frazier, and Eric Kratz either celebrate the AL pennant
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  Speaker 1: We'll look ahead to Game 7. FT Post Game Show
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  Speaker 1: live tonight. That will be right after Guardians Rays ALCS
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  Speaker 1: Game 6. All right, here we go with Fox Sports
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  Speaker 1: 1 on deck. And this is about the NLCS and
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  Speaker 1: the Brewers vanquishing the Dodgers and how they will respond
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  Speaker 1: to a layoff that is quite lengthy. In fact, I
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  Speaker 1: had to look this up. Actually, somebody else looked it
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  Speaker 1: up and I got it off the internet. But since
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  Speaker 1: the LCS went to a seven-game format in 1985, the
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  Speaker 1: only longer stretch of time off for a league champion
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  Speaker 1: before Game 1 of the World Series was in 2007.
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  Speaker 1: That was the Colorado Rockies. They had eight days off
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  Speaker 1: as opposed to the Brewers having seven. We know what
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  Speaker 1: happened to the Rockies. It didn't go well for them.
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  Speaker 1: The Red Sox swept them. So... We'll see how this
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  Speaker 1: plays out for the Brewers. Generally speaking, time off at
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  Speaker 1: this time of year allows guys to rest their bodies
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  Speaker 1: and everyone is tired. Everyone is banged up. Everyone is achy.
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  Speaker 1: And as I just mentioned, for Mizorowski and Henderson, it
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  Speaker 1: certainly can't hurt. They're up in levels where they have
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  Speaker 1: not been as far as how much they've pitched this season.
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  Speaker 1: But the Brewers, it seems, based on the way they
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  Speaker 1: played against the Dodgers, that they're capable of overcoming anything.
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  Speaker 1: And in that series, as Of course, as you know
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  Speaker 1: by now, they overcame deficits in all four games. And
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  Speaker 1: in the finale, game four, they overcame a 4-0 deficit
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  Speaker 1: on a night when Shohei Otani had electrified Dodger Stadium
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  Speaker 1: with his three-run homer. It looked like this series was
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  Speaker 1: about to go the other way. Remember, if the Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: had won that game, they had Scooble and Yamamoto lined
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  Speaker 1: up for the next two against what has been somewhat
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  Speaker 1: of a fading Mizorowski and Henderson, It could have changed.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't. The Brewers came back again, and really, they're
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  Speaker 1: up to 110 wins now. It's been a remarkable season.
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  Speaker 1: It needs to end with a World Series title. At
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  Speaker 1: this point, it would be extremely disappointing for Brewers and
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  Speaker 1: their fans if it ended in anything less. But my goodness,
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  Speaker 1: they were just remarkable against the Dodgers. Remarkable being a
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  Speaker 1: word that their former owner, Bud Selig, often used. before
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  Speaker 1: he was commissioner, when he was the owner of the team,
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  Speaker 1: and even when he was commissioner. That was one of
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  Speaker 1: his favorite words. Keep in mind, from innings six to nine,
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  Speaker 1: the Brewers outscored the Dodgers 10-2. That's pretty impressive. And
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  Speaker 1: of course, their bullpen with Ashby at the end, and
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  Speaker 1: Trevor McGill and Uribe doing what he was doing. That
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  Speaker 1: was simply an impressive thing. Now, getting back to that layoff,
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  Speaker 1: here's another number that is Somewhat daunting if you're a
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  Speaker 1: Brewers fan and if you're Milwaukee getting ready for this thing.
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  Speaker 1: Since 2009, the team to clinch its pennant first, the
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  Speaker 1: team to have the shorter series, is 4-12 in the
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  Speaker 1: World Series. Now, it doesn't mean that the Brewers are
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  Speaker 1: suddenly going to fall apart here, but certainly the layoff
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  Speaker 1: does present a challenge, particularly offensively. It seems at times
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  Speaker 1: teams struggle to regain their rhythm offensively, No matter how
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  Speaker 1: many simulated games they play, no matter how much live
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  Speaker 1: batting practice they take, nothing replicates playing in a postseason game.
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  Speaker 1: The stress of that, the pressure of that, the intensity
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  Speaker 1: of that. So again, this will be something of a challenge.
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  Speaker 1: No question about it. But at the same time, what's
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  Speaker 1: the flip side? The flip side is you go seven
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  Speaker 1: against the Dodgers. You beat the Dodgers. We're playing this
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  Speaker 1: out hypothetically. And then your pitching is tired. So this
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  Speaker 1: is a better situation. optimal or more optimal situation for
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  Speaker 1: the brew crew here. Now, there's one other thing that's
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  Speaker 1: really interesting here, and I'm interested to see how it
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  Speaker 1: plays out. Brandon Woodruff, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
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  Speaker 1: after the series was clinched in Los Angeles, said, it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be hard to keep me off the roster. Now,
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  Speaker 1: who is Brandon Woodruff, in case you've forgotten? He's been
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  Speaker 1: a longtime brewer. their ace at times. He also has
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  Speaker 1: been out since July 4th with a shoulder injury that
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  Speaker 1: originally was thought to have required surgery. He rehabbed it.
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  Speaker 1: Now he's throwing again. He's going to throw a live
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  Speaker 1: batting practice on Tuesday. They're going to see where he is. Now,
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  Speaker 1: it would be a cool story if Woodruff, given his
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  Speaker 1: history was activated for the World Series, but I don't
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  Speaker 1: see it happening. And I don't see it happening because
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  Speaker 1: he's been out so long. We don't know what his
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  Speaker 1: velocity is going to be. And even if it's, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, 92-94, which for him would be good with
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  Speaker 1: the shoulder injury, do you trust it over someone who
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  Speaker 1: is pitching and is active and is good to go?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that you do. And people might say, well,
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  Speaker 1: the Brewers owe it to Woodruff. I guess you can
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  Speaker 1: make that case, but my goodness, what they owe their
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  Speaker 1: team most, what Woodruff owes the team most, what must
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  Speaker 1: happen here is for the Brewers to win the World Series.
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  Speaker 1: That's goal number one. This is not about honoring players
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  Speaker 1: who have been great teammates and great pitchers for you.
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  Speaker 1: It's about winning. If Woodruff can help you win in
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  Speaker 1: a way that some other pitcher on the roster cannot, well, yes,
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  Speaker 1: of course, you activate him. I'm just not sure that
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  Speaker 1: would be the right thing for Milwaukee to do. So
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  Speaker 1: we'll see how it goes. And certainly the Brewers have
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  Speaker 1: some time to lick whatever wounds they have and rest
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  Speaker 1: up and get ready for either Tampa Bay or Cleveland.
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  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay or Cleveland, it would be a small market
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  Speaker 1: palooza in the World Series. It would be quite something
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  Speaker 1: to see. And in a sense, Tampa Bay, Milwaukee, would
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  Speaker 1: be a better World Series. I believe it would feature
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  Speaker 1: the best teams, the teams with the best records in
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  Speaker 1: each league. Remember, Tampa Bay won 13 more games than
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  Speaker 1: the Guardians during the regular season. Tampa Bay plays a
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  Speaker 1: very appealing style. If you watch them defensively, if you
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  Speaker 1: watch them bunt, put the ball in play, do all
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  Speaker 1: the things that they do. And Milwaukee, very similar. Contact
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  Speaker 1: wasn't necessarily in their favor in the last series. They
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  Speaker 1: struck out a ton. But the way they play the game,
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  Speaker 1: the way they run, Yes, defensively, of course, both these teams,
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  Speaker 1: it would be fun to watch them play in the
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  Speaker 1: World Series. So we shall see what transpires tonight and
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  Speaker 1: possibly tomorrow in the ALCS, and then we will have
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  Speaker 1: at foxone.com. All right, time now for the inside dish,
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  Speaker 1: the part of the show where I talk about, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, something I've written, a trend in the game,
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  Speaker 1: something that's agitating you guys, or maybe all of the above.
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  Speaker 1: And what I want to discuss is the column I
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  Speaker 1: wrote after the NLCS, really about the Dodgers' aftermath. And
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  Speaker 1: let's start off by saying what I said at the
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  Speaker 1: start of the column, and I wrote it at the
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  Speaker 1: start of the postseason. Just because a small market team
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  Speaker 1: defeated the big money Dodgers, just because we're going to
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  Speaker 1: have two small market teams in the World Series, it
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  Speaker 1: changes nothing as far as the labor situation is going
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  Speaker 1: to be concerned. The owners are still going to propose
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  Speaker 1: contracts and obviously push for a salary cap. The owners
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  Speaker 1: are still going to lock out the players on December 1st.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're watching, if you're listening, and you have
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  Speaker 1: an opinion on this, I don't expect your position to change.
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  Speaker 1: It's fully formed, for the most part, I would expect.
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  Speaker 1: And you have your thoughts. So what does change? Probably
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  Speaker 1: nothing with regard to labor. And I also want to
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  Speaker 1: start off this segment by saying something I've said repeatedly,
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  Speaker 1: and it doesn't seem to be getting through to people,
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  Speaker 1: at least the way it should. And that is, I
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  Speaker 1: believe change is necessary. I believe small market teams need
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  Speaker 1: to be given a better chance. I need payroll disparity
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  Speaker 1: to be reduced. I want all of these things. I
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  Speaker 1: just don't want it in a way that's going to
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  Speaker 1: shut down the sport. Sport is too much momentum. And
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  Speaker 1: as I've said repeatedly, this is not a zero-sum situation.
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  Speaker 1: This is not black and white. Salary cap or nothing. No.
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  Speaker 1: There are ways to fix the collective bargaining agreement, and
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  Speaker 1: make it so it is fairer, so payroll disparity is reduced.
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  Speaker 1: So let's be real clear about that, okay? Let's start there. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers. As I wrote, this idea that the Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: in perpetuity were going to be this behemoth is absurd.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't work that way. There is a cyclical nature
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  Speaker 1: to teams, and Andrew Friedman said it in 2022. He
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  Speaker 1: basically said he is concerned that at some point, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to experience a downturn. Now, it took a while.
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  Speaker 1: And certainly it took a while for the Dodgers to
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  Speaker 1: fall a little bit. They've fallen in this postseason. But
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  Speaker 1: here's what Friedman said back then. There are a lot
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  Speaker 1: of cautionary tales of large revenue teams that have had
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  Speaker 1: a period of success and then kind of fallen off
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  Speaker 1: a cliff and had to take time to rebuild. Excuse me.
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  Speaker 1: And we're doing everything we can, Friedman said then. to
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  Speaker 1: stave off that and to maintain this level for as
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  Speaker 1: far as we can see out. Now, the Dodgers basically
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  Speaker 1: have done that. And yes, they're going to be good
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  Speaker 1: next year. There's no question. They might even be favored
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  Speaker 1: to win the World Series. They have that much talent.
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  Speaker 1: But as we've seen, there's some age on this team too.
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  Speaker 1: And this was actually a concern last year as well.
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  Speaker 1: If they had lost the World Series to the Blue Jays,
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  Speaker 1: the age factor would have become more of a question then. Now,
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  Speaker 1: they brought in Kyle Tucker in the offseason, a younger guy,
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  Speaker 1: not young per se, but 29-ish, I think, at the
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  Speaker 1: time he signed. And yet, you look at them now,
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  Speaker 1: Freddie's 37, Muncie's 36, Betts is 34. You've got Snell
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  Speaker 1: and Glass now that are both 33, Otani's 32. Not
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  Speaker 1: ancient in most of these cases, still productive in almost
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  Speaker 1: all of them, and I would expect it would remain
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  Speaker 1: that way. But we see this in the game, that
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  Speaker 1: these big contracts that extend for a while When you
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  Speaker 1: have older players, they can bite you. The Yankees are
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  Speaker 1: experiencing it to some degree. The Phillies are experiencing it
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  Speaker 1: to some degree. You need younger players. And at some time,
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  Speaker 1: or in some cases, they're not there. The Dodgers have
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  Speaker 1: younger players. I just don't know necessarily where they're going
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  Speaker 1: to put some of these outfielders, as long as Teo
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  Speaker 1: Hernandez is still on the roster. So there is a
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  Speaker 1: downturn that might come here. It might not be severe.
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  Speaker 1: It might not be, as Andrew Friedman said, falling off
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  Speaker 1: a cliff, but the Dodgers were not going to be
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  Speaker 1: powers forever and are not going to be powers forever.
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  Speaker 1: And this idea that MLB has perpetuated that, oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 1: they can't be stopped. They spend all this money. No,
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  Speaker 1: we just saw they got beat by a hungrier team.
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  Speaker 1: Dave Roberts told me in the post-game interview after game four,
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  Speaker 1: not only were they hungry, the Brewers were starving. And
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  Speaker 1: not only that, They were more athletic. They played a
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  Speaker 1: better brand of baseball. They made the Dodgers look old.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know where this is going with the Dodgers. Certainly,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to be a different team next year, and
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  Speaker 1: they have some other trade candidates besides Tao. As well,
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  Speaker 1: Tommy Edmund possibly has been mentioned. Tyler Glass now, if
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  Speaker 1: you can maybe move that deal, you do that. They
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  Speaker 1: have some things that they will consider. They have some
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  Speaker 1: free agents, notably Tarek Skubal. He might be back. He
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  Speaker 1: might not. And most of their other free agents are
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  Speaker 1: either relievers or secondary players, like Kike Hernandez, for example.
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  Speaker 1: So they'll be good. I have no doubt they'll be good.
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  Speaker 1: But some of these players are getting older. And you've
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  Speaker 1: got next year Freeman and Muncy in their last years.
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  Speaker 1: And it's going to be something for the Dodgers to
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  Speaker 1: look at this offseason and beyond, depending on the rules
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  Speaker 1: of engagement in the labor agreement, just what they are
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  Speaker 1: going to be going forward. It doesn't last forever. And also,
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  Speaker 1: the idea that the postseason is all that matters, that
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  Speaker 1: is a ridiculous idea that has come up in this
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  Speaker 1: labor discussion as well. The postseason is not all that matters.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: The regular season matters a great deal. And yes, you
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: look over the last 10 years, certainly it's true that
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: the Kansas City Royals are the last small market team
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: to win a World Series. We're going to have another
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: one this year. And cyclically, again, we're probably going to
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: have one at some point in the near future, no
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: matter what the labor agreement looks like. So there it is.
• 19:01
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• 19:06
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• 20:14
  Speaker 1: All right, more news this morning, and because today is
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: not an off day, and it should have been, you're
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: seeing some announcements from teams on personnel. We told you
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: earlier about the Orioles hiring Jared Banner as their general
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: manager under Mike Elias. Jared Banner was also a candidate
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: for the A's head of baseball operations, and the A's,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: as we kind of teased at the start of the show,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: have just announced that they have a new president of
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: baseball operations. His name is Taylor Smith. He comes from
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: the Red Sox, and before that, the Rays. The A's
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: had a pretty expansive process, number of candidates, number of interviews,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: but this is the guy they settled on. And frankly,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: they've got a chance to do some big things as
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: they get ready for Las Vegas. It's going to depend
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: on the owner, John Fisher, and what he allows them
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: to spend. That, of course, will depend as well on
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: the labor agreement and what that looks like. And if
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: it includes some kind of floor, that probably will have
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: to take effect, not immediately, but over time. But The
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: A's have a number of quality position players, younger position
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: players under contract. They've got to fix the pitching, which
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: is not easy to do in Sacramento. That's their choice.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: And we'll see if Taylor Smith can succeed in that regard. Okay,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: this is Grill and Can. It's time for your questions.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Enough of me. Let's get to what you have to say.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: First question from Foul Territory Show. That's us. Why do
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: you think Carlos Mendoza picked the Phillies over the Mariners?
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: It seems to me that Carlos Mendoza, rather than go
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: through the process of interviewing for managing jobs and all
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: the different things that come with that, took the bird
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: in hand. And the bird in hand certainly was this
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Phillies job and returning to coaching, which is something he
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: does extremely well. If a managerial opening comes up at
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: some point in the future, he'll be in position to
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: take that. It's interesting that he goes to the Phillies,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: of course, after working for the Mets. But Carlos Mendoza
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: is an outstanding baseball person. And you can have your
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: opinions about what he was like as a manager. Guys
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: in their first jobs as managers often aren't what they
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: can become later. We've seen it time and again. And
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: he was a bench coach for the Yankees for so
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: many years, did a great job there. and had his
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: moments as Mets manager as well. I know Mets fans
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: are freaking out one way or another about it, one
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: thing or another, but he did have some good moments there.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: So good for him. Congratulations to Carlos Mendoza on getting
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: that job, and to the Phillies as well. All right,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: let's get to another question. Favorite World Series atmosphere you've
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: been in? All right, this is an interesting question because
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: I've got a few. So my first World Series, and
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: I'm going to date myself, It was 1987, Minnesota Twins
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: versus St. Louis Cardinals, the Metrodome. Also, 1991 World Series,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: the Metrodome. That place was deafening, and I'll never forget it.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: That was an amazing atmosphere. I'd also have to mention
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Philadelphia in 2008 and 2009 when the Phillies were rolling.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: I would mention Wrigley Field, 2016. But really, most World
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Series atmospheres are pretty good. I'm sure I'm skipping some.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: I'm missing some. But those are the ones that immediately
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: stand out to me in particular. All right, let's get
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: to another question if we can. Let's see. I guess
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: we don't have time for another question. So I'm going
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: to wish you guys a happy game six of the ALCS.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: I'm going to thank you for watching and listening. Foul
• 23:47
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• 23:51
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• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Jim Bowden. Reminder, post-game tonight, after Game 6, on the
• 23:59
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• 24:03
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