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Jazz Lollipop Gate, Dodgers first to 50 wins, White Sox “team sport” · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: You know how it days, krats, it's running crats. I
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  Speaker 1: am not a big fan of talking other sports on FT.
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  Speaker 1: You know that, right, I know that.
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  Speaker 2: I know I get it.
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  Speaker 1: But big butt, if you bring a World Cup audience
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  Speaker 1: to a baseball game, I will love you and I
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  Speaker 1: will watch your soccer, not your football, your soccer.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it's okay if we call it soccer, because everybody
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  Speaker 2: gets what it is. Yes, you have to be able
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  Speaker 2: to like it's just it's it's so awesome. But hey,
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  Speaker 2: there's nobody in Miami to watch baseball games.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Oh my gosh, the takeover in Miami was incredible.
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  Speaker 1: That was some great video. If you're listening to us
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  Speaker 1: right now, this is now the second viral moment, right,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't miss any Boston and Miami. Yeah, is it Scottish?
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  Speaker 1: Both times I will say I'm not the most tuned in.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know about Miami. I don't know about Miami.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Scottish fans both times. I just got confirmation.
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  Speaker 2: They're fun. They're fun. Makes me want to go to Scotland.
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  Speaker 2: I want to go to Scotland.
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  Speaker 1: Actually makes me think where? Right? So they left Boston,
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  Speaker 1: now they're taking over Miami. Because there's World Cup games
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  Speaker 1: across the country. I'm like, where are the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the countries. Why are you not showing up with your
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  Speaker 1: fanatics and going to one baseball game? Why is it
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  Speaker 1: only the Scots that are this cool?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know. Maybe they're just the
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  Speaker 2: most voistous, or maybe they have the most media attention.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like other countries. I feel like other countries
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  Speaker 2: get hype, but maybe they're just not hype until the
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  Speaker 2: next round, and the Scottish are like, we're getting hype
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  Speaker 2: the whole time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to see another fan base go to
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  Speaker 1: a baseball game, like another country's fan base. But I
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  Speaker 1: get it, There's been plenty that probably have done the
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  Speaker 1: Oh I'm in Kansas City. I'll hit a Royals game
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  Speaker 1: and I'll go to the World Cup. But I want
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  Speaker 1: to see like the masses take over. Good stuff. All right,
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  Speaker 1: let's charge let's charge about. Yeah, we'll start nice and
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  Speaker 1: simple here. The Los Angeles Dodgers are just cruising along
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  Speaker 1: and they're the first team to fifty wins. Yeah, yawning,
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  Speaker 1: they are yawning. We usually do something on the first
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  Speaker 1: team to fifty wins, So congratulations to the Dodgers. You
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  Speaker 1: are the first team to fifty wins. At some point,
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  Speaker 1: I thought it could be the Yankees, but they don't
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  Speaker 1: have iron judge, although they're still playing very well. I
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  Speaker 1: thought it could be the Braves, but they've hit a
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  Speaker 1: little hiccup over the past couple weeks. I'm not too concerned,
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  Speaker 1: although they need some starting pitching. The Dodgers, on the
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  Speaker 1: other hand, have plenty of issues, and despite that, they
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  Speaker 1: have fifty wins on the season. Crats, and by issues,
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  Speaker 1: I mean there are quite a few starters there waiting on.
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  Speaker 1: They might I don't even call that an issue. When
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  Speaker 1: Tyler Glass now and Blake Snell pop up in October
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  Speaker 1: and look money like they did last year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's what they're probably planning on. That's
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  Speaker 2: how they built this roster to win, to win every day,
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  Speaker 2: and even when they're not playing well, Like there's been
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  Speaker 2: spurts where the lineup hasn't done well. There's been spurts
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  Speaker 2: where they were like, who's going to close games for us?
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  Speaker 2: Now that Edwin's down? Like, they just keep figuring it out,
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  Speaker 2: and they figure out in different ways. Robleski comes out
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  Speaker 2: of the out of the bullpen, and is one of
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  Speaker 2: their better starters. Show Hay's been down with a knee
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  Speaker 2: and then he wasn't hitting. Now he is hitting like
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  Speaker 2: it's It's incredible, but I'm not surprised they're first to fifty.
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  Speaker 1: So for example, one of their biggest off offseason acquisitions,
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  Speaker 1: Kyle Tucker, who had the backspasms the other day, turns
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  Speaker 1: out he's not really the difference maker right now. You
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  Speaker 1: could look at that as an issue. Hey, Tucker's not
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  Speaker 1: doing much. He's not even close to his career norms.
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  Speaker 1: Mookie has gone through his struggles at the plate. Right
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  Speaker 1: it's not just the pitching, it's not just who's missing,
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  Speaker 1: and there's plenty that's there. The arm depth on this
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  Speaker 1: team is significant, but some of the big names have
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  Speaker 1: not put up the numbers that you'd expect from them.
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  Speaker 1: You can go the other way too with this. Andy
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  Speaker 1: Pajes is leading the National League outfield vote right now,
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  Speaker 1: leading outfielder for National leaguers, and he's probably the tenth
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  Speaker 1: most known name on the team or most popular. And
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  Speaker 1: for Dodgers fans that are watching, we're not talking about you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about the rest of the world and how
• 4:37
  Speaker 1: they pay attention to your team. If I say, name
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  Speaker 1: me Dodgers, how far does it take them to get
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  Speaker 1: to pa Haes?
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  Speaker 2: The only way, the only way they the only way
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  Speaker 2: they figure out when pa Haes is on the team
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  Speaker 2: was they weren't watching the World Series last year because
• 4:51
  Speaker 2: he essentially played himself into a defensive only role, and
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  Speaker 2: now this year he was. He's been leading the he's
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  Speaker 2: been leading the league in different categories. And normally I
• 5:01
  Speaker 2: don't agree with the fan voting. You know, they get
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  Speaker 2: it right. Majority for him to be number one in
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  Speaker 2: the fan voting for the season he's had is spot on,
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  Speaker 2: and the team just keeps churning. They find different guys
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  Speaker 2: to fill in at different spots, and Andy Payes fans
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  Speaker 2: did not cost the Dodgers two hundred million dollars. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so hump the brakes. He's doing it, and you know what,
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  Speaker 2: like it's it's cool to see.
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  Speaker 1: What else do we like or don't like or are
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  Speaker 1: concerned about? With this team? I can point to their
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  Speaker 1: results last year. Let's not forget they were a wildcard team.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're a wildcard team, I heard Jed Hoyer
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  Speaker 1: the other day say you shouldn't push your chips in
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  Speaker 1: all the way at the trade deadline. Now, the Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: and no team wants to give up a ton of
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  Speaker 1: prospects at the trade deadline, but that is the cost
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  Speaker 1: of doing business. Andrew Friedman's talked about and guess what
• 7:01
  Speaker 1: last year he tried to load up the bullpens that
• 7:04
  Speaker 1: he wouldn't have to overpay at the trade deadline. He
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  Speaker 1: picked up guys like Tanner, Scott and Kirby Yates. And
• 7:09
  Speaker 1: I know Scott's recovered, but last year Scott was not
• 7:12
  Speaker 1: good for them, right, Yeah, it's not good for them,
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  Speaker 1: So that plan even backfired. But they still were able
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  Speaker 1: to figure it out and have plenty of barm talent
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  Speaker 1: again through what they built within the organization and other acquisitions,
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  Speaker 1: so this time around. Currently they're on a nice pace.
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  Speaker 1: They of course want to get through the first round
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  Speaker 1: with a bye if possible, But we're just about at
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  Speaker 1: the half season point and they're fifty to twenty nine
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  Speaker 1: on the year. What would concern you?
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  Speaker 2: My concern would be for the rest of the league
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  Speaker 2: that Mookie Bets hasn't had a great year. He hasn't
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  Speaker 2: been healthy the whole year. Freddy Freeman's been good coming on.
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  Speaker 2: As of late, Max Munsey's been off and on the roster.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's leading the team and homers, but I'm
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  Speaker 2: not one hundred percent sure. And Kyle Tucker hasn't done
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  Speaker 2: anything yet. That's what will concern me about the league,
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  Speaker 2: because the league has to figure out how to beat
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  Speaker 2: this team and they have so many ways that they
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  Speaker 2: can beat you, and they aren't hitting on all cylinders.
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  Speaker 2: For this team, I would say, is still the closer role?
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  Speaker 2: What is that closer role gonna look like? I get it.
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  Speaker 2: Edwin's probably gonna come back, He's probably gonna be one
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  Speaker 2: hundred percent healthy. It's just what the Dodgers do. But
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  Speaker 2: can they do what they did last year and hope
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  Speaker 2: Yamamoto comes out in the in Game seven and saves
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  Speaker 2: their bacon? Like, is Rokie gonna shift over to the
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  Speaker 2: bullpen right now? Last year at this time, they were like, well, Robleski,
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  Speaker 2: Justin Robleski will definitely shift to the bullpen. Justin Roblesky
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  Speaker 2: has earned his spot. Justin Robleski's giving them innings, he's
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  Speaker 2: giving them length, he's giving them I mean, it's it's
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  Speaker 2: incredible what he's given them. And I get it. They're
• 8:59
  Speaker 2: gonna say, well, you know what, he doesn't strike a
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  Speaker 2: lot of guys out, so we want to go with
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  Speaker 2: the higher strikeout guys. But right now I go Yamamoto,
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  Speaker 2: Otani and Robleski as you're one, two, three in the rotation.
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  Speaker 1: So that's what it would look like if the postseason
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  Speaker 1: started tomorrow for you and wait that. So now fast forward.
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  Speaker 1: If let's say the numbers stay the same for everyone,
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  Speaker 1: and the arsenal and the durability everything, like if you
• 9:25
  Speaker 1: were playing a video game all the meters stayed the
• 9:27
  Speaker 1: same between now and October, but then Snell and Glass
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  Speaker 1: now came back. You wouldn't have those guys starting games instead.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I would. I would. I mean they automatically
• 9:39
  Speaker 2: slot in. Obviously I need to see their starts. But
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  Speaker 2: let's say their career norms and what happens is then
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  Speaker 2: I push show Hay all the way back because show
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  Speaker 2: Hey will not cannot, absolutely won't give you two games
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  Speaker 2: per series. That's just I mean, they showed that last year.
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  Speaker 2: They I don't think they want to do that. I
• 10:01
  Speaker 2: guess he was coming off Tommy John last year. But
• 10:03
  Speaker 2: to me, I think, you go, you you throw one
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  Speaker 2: of those two guys in there. You throw Blake Snell,
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  Speaker 2: I think, assuming he would get the I would love
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  Speaker 2: to go right left with Snell, and then I would
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  Speaker 2: go back to Glass now and then I would go
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  Speaker 2: to show Hey. And Robleski is exactly where I said
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  Speaker 2: he shouldn't be into the bullpen because then you gotta
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  Speaker 2: go Yamamoto back around for game five and then you
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  Speaker 2: never get to show Hey until game one of the
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  Speaker 2: next series.
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  Speaker 1: So you're saying what they did last year in the
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  Speaker 1: seven gamer in the World series is not ideal, right,
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  Speaker 1: because Otani popped up twice in that series to start.
• 10:40
  Speaker 1: You don't want that, and because otherwise people are gonna go, oh,
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: well he did that last year, you're saying, hey, he
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: didn't perform as well in that second outing. You have
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: to remember that he's also hitting and running around, and
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: so the the energy and the energy that you're exerting
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: in the postseason is heavy, right, stress levels for everything
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  Speaker 1: or high, and then you might run out of gas
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  Speaker 1: even if you're superhuman.
• 11:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and he is superhuman. But you're talking about I
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  Speaker 2: think show Hay has taken his pitching to the next
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  Speaker 2: level this year. But I promise every pitcher you talk to,
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  Speaker 2: a postseason start is next level exertion. So what Yamamoto
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  Speaker 2: did the fact that he was able to come back
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  Speaker 2: out pitch three times in one series, come back out
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  Speaker 2: after he had just thrown, like, it's it's next level.
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  Speaker 2: You can't expect that from guys. But and I'm not
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  Speaker 2: demeaning Yamamoto at all, Shoe Hay is hitting and running
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  Speaker 2: the bases in between each of his starts, and that
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  Speaker 2: is huge. And so for this team to be able
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  Speaker 2: to push their way through a postseason series, to me,
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  Speaker 2: it's always going to be show Hey not being the
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  Speaker 2: guy that comes up twice in the series and he
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  Speaker 2: doing in a world series. Absolutely anything can happen, just
• 12:01
  Speaker 2: like everybody's going to say everything's off the table in
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  Speaker 2: Game seven. But if you're planning it, that's how I
• 12:06
  Speaker 2: see the Dodgers planning it.
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: Hey, quickly on your closer spot. I mean, let's say
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: Edwin Diez doesn't bounce back the way he wants to.
• 12:16
  Speaker 1: Tanner Scott's got a two two five ERA, he just
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: picked up his tenth save after Monday Nights win. I
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: think they'd be okay. There, there's there's that bullpen actually
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: has been shining all year and sometimes that's been the
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: main problem where they're freaking out in the playoffs, right.
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: I mean last year the freakout was no. Two years
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: ago the freakout was the rotation. Yes, So they were
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  Speaker 1: able to figure that out, and to me, that's what
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: makes Dave Roberts really special in the postseason two. He
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: did some things that were unconventional in both playoff runs
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: that I think get overlooked by people nationally because they
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: just want to look at the Dodgers and say, oh, well,
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: they they spend the most. Okay, well, the Mets spend
• 12:57
  Speaker 1: second most. Let me know how that's going for them.
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  Speaker 1: One more I want to point out that has to
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  Speaker 1: do with the front office slicing and dicing, because I've
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  Speaker 1: been i would say, one of the leaders of this
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: ship for the last month and change. Where was everyone
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: else on? Eric Lower? And it might sound like I'm
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: a broken record, but Eric Lower was the bulk guy
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  Speaker 1: in the wind for the Dodgers over the Twins on Monday,
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  Speaker 1: six shutout innings, three walks, two punchouts. His numbers with
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers now five appearances, A two, five, twenty eight
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  Speaker 1: and a third innings. He cost almost nothing. The Blue
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: Jays gave him away for peanuts. I don't even know
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: if they gave them peanuts. Remember, we went over like
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  Speaker 1: the intricacies of what it was like. They basically just
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: took him on, right, But the Blue Jays paid the
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: bulk of the money that was due. So he's like
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: almost a league minimum player and nobody else wanted that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, maybe nobody else needs a starting pitcher.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, wait wait what?
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  Speaker 2: Like huh?
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  Speaker 1: I just don't understand how they end up with him,
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  Speaker 1: of all teams? How do they end up with him?
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  Speaker 1: When we're watching him and he's incredible last year, he
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: goes through some bumps this year. Clearly there were issues
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: going on between role and what was going on there, right,
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: And he's not the only one that's dealt with that
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: this year. Our buddy on the Pirates, Majinski, had a
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: little bit of that going on. So what happens. He
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: goes to the Dodgers and instantly he's a two zra guy.
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  Speaker 1: What and he can I mean even be a swingman
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  Speaker 1: for them, which he was doing for the Blue Jays.
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  Speaker 1: So it's it's hard for me to fathom that they
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: ended up with him we got to keep running because
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: we Yeah, last word again.
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  Speaker 2: No, I was just gonna say. I'll just say it.
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  Speaker 2: It's not hard for me to fathom it. It's hard
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: for me to hear people whine and complain that the
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: Dodgers are unfair when they get a guy like this
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  Speaker 2: and he's giving them significant Like.
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  Speaker 1: I wish I could do this is talk to say
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  Speaker 1: ten gms and go, hey, what didn't you like about
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: Eric Lower? Just curious, like, what didn't you see peripherals? Okay, gotcha,
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• 17:27
  Speaker 2: he was.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: Attacking so efficient it looked like he didn't miss a
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: beat like he was. I mean, that is vintage Big Wu, right,
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: just attacking challenging hitters. It's the thing that many pitchers
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: tell us when we talk to them on this show
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: that it takes them some time to actually realize, like
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: how good I am and not dancing around if my
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: stuff's good, if you're a stuff guy.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: He went after and he didn't have his.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: Best Stuff, two minutes while TV Isn't Break and two
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: things to show You. One Reds fans went nuts after
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: a yes confirmed a strikeout. That was the eleventh k
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: and it won Reds fans some free pizza. I always
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: love that stuff. I remember, like long long ago, it
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: was before Virality, but the Mavericks, the Dallas Mavericks had
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: this promo and I think it was when they got
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: to like one hundred points or something like that and
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: people were losing their minds. It's really like betting, you
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: cause you're like the team could be down a ton
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: or up a ton, and then you're rooting for something else.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: It's in the same family there. You're betting for a
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: chance to get a little free pizza. But it's fun.
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: I love.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: I mean, it was definitely one of the most annoying
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: but amazing things in the minor leagues. You get a
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: free taco if the taco batter strikes out, and I
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: mean they could care less. They are chin and you're
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: the taco batter taco taco and it's for a seventy
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: nine cent taco, and they loved it. They wanted you
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: to strike out so badly. They would boo you if
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: you swung with the first pitch, they would. I'm like, hey,
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: you know what, if it keeps the fans engaged, everybody
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: should be some type of batter or there should be
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: a counting clock. I love it. I said this when
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: we had abs. This is the kind of electric stuff
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: that keeps people engaged in the games.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: M hmm.
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: Hey.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: The other thing about fans, they love Ernie Clement. He
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: is the AL vote leader for the All Star Game.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Ernie Clement.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess, I guess sex sells. He's a handsome man.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: He's a handsome man. And you know this part. I
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: like when someone does something so incredible, either in the
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: second half or in the playoffs, you don't get rewarded
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: for the All Star Games. So he's getting rewarded. A
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: year later, I did a couple of things and then
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: we're gonna get to the College World Series soon too.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: But let's start with a team that I think has
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: College World Series vibes. It's the White Sox walking it off.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: They're really good at home. We actually did a fan
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: question like how do you solve the whole home road
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: thing with the White Sox? Because I think there I
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: have just gone off my head here. I think they're
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: in like the ten game under range. On the road
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: and at home they are playing nice. It was a
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: great comeback win for them, and it results in their
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: third win of the season when they're entering the ninth
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: inning trailing. The only team that's better than them in
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: that category is the Cubs, surprisingly have six of those wins.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: That's really rare to pull that off. I was surprised
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: to see them on that list. But the White Sox
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: are able to pull it off again. So they just
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: got Kyle teelback. That'll help. I think the offense and
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: the defense things are. Things are looking good for a
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: wild card run.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: And it's one of those teams that I can't explain
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: why other than you'd have the added such great energy.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: They play together as a family, we're never out of it.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: All that stuff has superseded the fact that they don't
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: have this like superstar on the team, let alone the
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: fact that they don't have the player that was playing
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: the best in Maricami. But when you talk about a
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: guy like Kyle Tile coming back, you say that's an upgrade.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: Because of the catching position, they have not been getting much.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Do we know what he's gonna do. Absolutely, we don't
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: know what he's gonna do, but we know what he
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: can possibly do. And even when we look at some
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: of these stats, they're twenty third and average. They are
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: third in home runs, which everybody loves the homer, so
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: it shows that you need to hit home runs. They're
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: pitching doesn't strike a lot of guys out. Their youra
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: is kind of high. They walk a lot of guys,
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: so it's like, are they walking a tightrope or are
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: they a team that plays together and figures out how
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: to win in the poor American league.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: And for the Guardians, they know how important this is.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: They don't have Jose Ramirez right now, so they're trying
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: to tread water. It's weird you rarely have him out.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: He's been one of the more durable players, and you
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: don't have many teams that are this reliant on one
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: superstar Hall of famer for a long period of time.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: They were trying to go six out Cad Smith save
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: in this one and came up short, of course, with
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Antonachi getting first pitch on him in the ninth to
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: driving a couple of runs. So they were trying, I
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: mean the White Sox got the classic. I mean to
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Cad Smith in this one.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, how I have no idea? Oh wait, they've used
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: him a lot. How do you? How do you do it? Like?
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: How do you beat a team in a series? The
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: first game of a series? You say, okay, we may
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: not win this game. How do we get into their bullpen?
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Now they blew a lead, which is like, oh man,
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: like we had Sir Anthony, he blew the save. Now
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: how do it? Oh wait, Kate Smith's coming back out.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: We got to and we saw him. I don't care
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: how nasty your stuff is. Besides Mariano Rivera, you see
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: a guy over and over and over and over again.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: And we're talking to Craig Kimberl later on. He knows
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: a little bit about that. In the playoffs and being overused,
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: you overexpose somebody, even average big league hitters start to
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: make the adjustment. And you know they were able to
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: make the adjustment. When my puppy Bella has something wrong,
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to go around googling what.
• 23:12
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• 24:09
  Speaker 1: post game? This is what Kratz is talking about. They're
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: all coming together. They're gamers here it is. I've got
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: it for you.
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: It's a team sport. If if you're mad about it,
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: you know, giving up two runs on the ninth. Take
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: your ass to go play, you know, tennis, or play
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: an individual sport. So this is a team sport. We
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: got it, guys back, and we're just trying trying to
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: keep the train moving.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: I almost shed a tear after that one. You know why.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: I've been on the field doing many of those interviews
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: in the past, and it is so difficult to get
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: you players to say anything interesting at all besides the
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: same five things right, especially right after a game. It's
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: really tough. Like the best you get, at least for me,
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: the baseball nerd in me is them explaining it at
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: bat or a certain situation. But for the most part,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: it's you know, we all rallied together, we were grinding
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: out at bats, blah blah blah, and then to just
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: get that that all you want. You don't want a
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: team sport, Go play tennis.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: I mean tennis, guys. I have a lot of friends
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: that play tennis. I don't play tennis. I don't even
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: play pickleball. But like that was just that was that
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: was a low blow by Antonaci. Low blow. Go play tennis,
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Like like it's like tennis is tough. Maybe maybe play
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: doubles and then your teammate will screw up. No, it is,
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: but it's so true. I'm sorry Scott that we don't
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: give you good answers at the end of games. One,
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: I never had any good game winning hits, or I
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: would have given you a lot of really good answers. Two,
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: you are so locked into the moment, Like I don't know,
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: I just you are a different person at the end
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: of a game, in the middle of a game, like
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: That's why in game interviews are when you can get
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: them and guys are actually engaged. I think they're electric
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: because you're in a spot, you're in a mindset where
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: you are trying your best to compete against the best
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: in the world. And you know what, we just don't
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: give you a lot postgame. But I love I love
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: that he took a shot at all you tennis players out.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: There, my last one on this game, because it was
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: really good. I got to catch a chunk of it.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: Patrick Bailey choosing to not slide on his way home.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Did you see that little maneuver? And do you think
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: that was on purpose? Because if he slid, he was
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: going to be out. And it's almost like when you
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: see a cool swim move, and it's just the way
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: that you avoid the tag in that particular bang bang moment.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: But it was like leg drop hand coming in other
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: leg drop and he scored. I thought that was just
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: a cool watch. No, are you gonna talk me out
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: of that?
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: No? No, I completely agree. And this is something that
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: I got banged for one time. In the big leagues.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: It's always faster to run through home plate. No, with
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: a collision rule and everything. People forget because you say, oh, man,
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: like ooh, that hook slide was so cool. If you
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: hook slide and you touch with your hand, you're already
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: past home plate. If you sprint through home plate, just
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: like you're running through first base, you're safe majority of
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: the time. Just ask Isaiah Kiner FILEFFA. He's got a
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: World Series ring if he runs through and nobody even
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: talks about his poor lead at third base, none of that.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: Like sliding at home While it looked ugly for Patrick Bailey,
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: was he safe? Was that the fastest that he could
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: get there? In my opinion, yes, maybe if you run
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: through it, that's the fastest, But you know there's collision.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: You're not sure you get to avoid the tag all
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: that stuff. But a slide is not to avoid tags,
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: but maybe like one percent of the time, a slide
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: is to slow you down. So if you're sliding into
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: a bang bang play that is the incorrect thing to do.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Urk Crochet won't begin throwing yet. According to manager Chad Tracy,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: this came in yesterday Monday. Today is not Tuesday. So
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Crochet had a scheduled reevaluation his shoulder. It showed improvement,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: but not enough time to take that next step. So
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Krats were playing the game here again. Ready, we're into
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: August at least.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: At least well, I mean right when you said that,
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: I didn't realize that he hadn't even started throwing yet.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: Now does that mean he's not he's playing catch, but
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: he's not off the mound. Like that's bad, Like it's
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: not good, Like we are nothing right August. You're lucky.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: If it's August. We're looking at September right now, because
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: he's been out for weeks and you just multiply, it's
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: just a multiple until he can even get off the mound.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: It's the same amount of time he's been out.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: And then you're gonna slow play it. At this point
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: if you're going that deep in with the way the
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Red Sox have been playing, there should be no rush.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: So we heard about that one and one other I'll
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: sneak in there too that I saw right before the
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: show started was justin Steel and how if he returns
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: it would probably be in a bullpen roll for the Cubbies.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: So that's a tough one too, because it looks like
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: he'll lose another full season at least as a starter.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: Although hey, the Cubs can use me in the bullpen
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: if he comes back late. You got to get there.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: But the Cubs have a better chance, much better chance
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: of making the playoffs, so that one at least feels
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: a little bit more real to me. The Crochet news
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: just means like he's not going to be with you
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: for the run that you need leading up to the deadline.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: You're going to sell before the deadline.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: Let me see if you got anything left.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: But yeah, Wally popgate has hit New York City Jazz
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Chisholm with a lollipop, playing around with it while he's
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: in the field in a real game, and Aaron Boone
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: has responded. He said, quote, it pisses me off when
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: he thinks about the fact that Jazz brought that out
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: and was messing around with it on the field in
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: a big league game. He said, quote, I don't I
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: didn't know about it until after the game. He and
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: I talked, and that won't be going on. Give me
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: more Kratz. Have you ever seen this? How much trouble
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: do you get for this kangaroo court? Or do you
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: just say one and done? Don't do that again, bro,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: and we move on.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: I mean, Aaron Boone saying it pisses me off is
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: not kangaroo court, like kangaroo court is. Ah, man, you
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: made another terrible challenge, Like you're really cooking us here.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: I don't understand it. I don't understand why he thought
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: this would be a good idea, Like he's not He's
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: not Ul Washington who used to play with a toothpick.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: He used to play back in the day. Look it
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: up every picture almost that he would have. It's because
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: he was trying to quit chewing tobacco. Dusty Baker would
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: have a toothpick in his mouth when he was managing.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: I don't know if he did it when he was
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: playing or not. Like I remember trying a toothpick because
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: I was like tense when I was hitting. I remember
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: the first pitch, I had a toothpick in my mouth.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: I like crunched it in half and it was just
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: in shards in my mouth and I stepped out of
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: the box spit it out, and I was like, well,
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: that's never gonna work. No, like a lollipop while you're play.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: What is one of the things that irritates me is nonchalantness?
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: Is that what it is? Is it just being like
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: is it trying to be nonchalant? Was he did he
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: have some type of like low sugar? Did he need
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: to get a sugar spike? What was happening there? Like,
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: I feel like I feel like it's something that shows
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: me that maybe he's not as focused on the things
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: he needs to be focused on.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: Do you think there's any audience that's like, let the
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: kids play play with a lollipop where everybody should be
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: pissed off on this one. I'm asking for me, you
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: know me, krats, I like to have fun. This to
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: me would be my line where I'm like, dude, if
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: you feel like you need like the mouth affixiation kind
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: of thing, there are plenty of other options where you
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: don't have to actually hold it and you have a
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: stick coming out of your mouth in a big league game,
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: and you're doing this right mouth and you're bringing it
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: back out, Like there's the very simple gum. There are seeds,
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: and there are a number of other things.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: He could have easily just cut the stick off and
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: had a lollipop in his mouth if that's what he wanted,
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: Like he just wanted to suck on a lollipop and
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: he wanted the gum in the middle. I get it. Hey,
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: his choice was tremendous. I mean you're talking about it
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: looked like the It looked like the gum in the
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: middle with a so sour apple, green apple, green apple.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: It's the best. It's absolutely the best one I could.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: I have one in my truck almost at all times
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: in case I'm driving somewhere and I need to pick
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: me up. Never have I ever thought about having one
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: in a game. And I feel like, I feel like
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: it borders on unprofessional, and I don't know, maybe i'd
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: be considered, Oh, you're an idiot. You're wearing your hat backwards.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: You don't know anything about unprofessional, Like there's a there's
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: a level of how you handle yourself. And I'm not
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: sure what his reasoning would be. I haven't seen anything
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: his response, but I respect Aaron Boone as much as
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: I respect any manager in the game, and for him
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: to say it pisses me off. And I don't know.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: I didn't know about it until after the game. He
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: and I talked and that won't be going on again. Like,
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: you don't have to do that. You're not babysitting kids.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: Guys don't do that, like what, I'm a high school coach.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: I'm like, guys, we're not checking it. We're not checking
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: our phone, like we don't. Well, I gotta see if
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: my mom is gonna pick me up, Like okay, well
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: just ask me and then I'll say, go check your phone.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: But that's the kind of thing like, hey, Jazz, no lollipops.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: No lollipops in oh, come on, I want one. It
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: just feels very immature and unprofessional.
• 33:45
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• 33:55
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  Speaker 1: Thank you to ze Geek. Do you think that there's
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  Speaker 1: any sense of testing your parents out like a kid
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  Speaker 1: would do, where you're like, I'm going to see if
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  Speaker 1: I can pull off bringing a lollipop onto the field?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, just watch what Jazz did last year. Deal
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  Speaker 2: at the one do the home run derby and he
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  Speaker 2: was like whatever, man, Like, I'll just do what I
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  Speaker 2: want to do. Like it's cool, man. I'm just gonna
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  Speaker 2: be as cool as I can. I'm gonna go and
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  Speaker 2: swing Aaron Judge's bat and I'm gonna hit some dingers.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody showed the strikeouts that I had because the bat
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  Speaker 2: was too big for me, but they showed all the dingers.
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  Speaker 2: What a cool story. I'm gonna take a green Apple
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  Speaker 2: lollipop out there and it'll be fun. It'll be cool.
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  Speaker 2: See what I can get away with.
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  Speaker 1: Mm hmm. Hey. I know he wants to cash out
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  Speaker 1: big in free agency, and he's definitely a good player,
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  Speaker 1: But these are the moments where you got a way.
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  Speaker 1: If it's worth it, you can have fun, you can
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  Speaker 1: say things, but the lollipop is pushing it.
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  Speaker 2: How much you said he wants a cash out in
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  Speaker 2: free agency. There's a difference between jazz Chislm and aeric Crats.
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  Speaker 2: Air Crafts is looking for a job. Let's let's get
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  Speaker 2: that straight. I can't do that kind of stuff. Jazz
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: Chism's a very good player. Maybe statistically you're looking at
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  Speaker 2: second basements in the game. Do you think he's last
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  Speaker 2: year's stats. Do you think he's his career stats, whatever
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  Speaker 2: it is he is up there, he should get paid
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  Speaker 2: for second basement. So you're talking about him wanting over
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  Speaker 2: one hundred million dollars If I'm not mistaken, Yes, all
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  Speaker 2: of a sudden, you're like, I'm paying a guy one
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  Speaker 2: hundred million dollars. It's willing to, you know, make selfish
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  Speaker 2: choices on the ABS system. Suck a lollipop at second
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  Speaker 2: base when you're like one hundred million, you know, I'd
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  Speaker 2: take him for I'd take him for a two year deal. Like.
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  Speaker 2: Those are the kind of things that you, as a
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  Speaker 2: owner you have to think about.
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  Speaker 1: I'm with you. So it sounds silly, trust me, it does.
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  Speaker 1: And there are more important things in life. But that's
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: what this show does. We bring this stuff up and
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: there is a line, and the line was crossed, and
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: Aaron Boone will defend players to death. So if he's
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: saying how pissed off he is, then you should know
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: he's at a ten out of ten on the pissed
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  Speaker 1: off meter, feeling like he's getting taken advantage of for
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: being a player's manager. Hey, a couple more minutes here
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: and then Baseball America's hot sheets is going to take
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: you through what happened in the College World Series. Steven
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: Shock was great with us. If you missed it earlier,
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  Speaker 1: you can backtrack to it. But this is what it
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  Speaker 1: looks like every Tuesday Live, three o'clock Eastern time. They're
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  Speaker 1: also going to talk about the proposals that came from
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  Speaker 1: MLB in terms of switching basically everything with the draft,
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: the international drafts, no more high school players, the whole
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: deal not going to get accepted, but still fun to
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  Speaker 1: kick around and explore what actually will happen. Will they
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  Speaker 1: get any types of changes? Could it be an international draft,
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  Speaker 1: which I think is definitely on the table and they
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: came close to pulling that off last time around. A
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: couple other notes, one from yesterday and then one for today.
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  Speaker 1: Do you see Kumar Rocker career high nine strikeouts twenty
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  Speaker 1: swinging strikes? Twenty swinging strikes. That means you were pumping
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  Speaker 1: a pitch in the zone and you're getting them to miss.
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  Speaker 1: That's a big stat for front offices. Can you get
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  Speaker 1: your stuff in the zone and create swing and miss
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  Speaker 1: out of it. That's one that I like, of course,
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  Speaker 1: but that's a really good number for him, And I
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: was just diving into the Rangers rotation for a moment,
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  Speaker 1: because you think, like, oh, that that's like the prime
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  Speaker 1: part of the Rangers. Their bullpen has been sick, like
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  Speaker 1: the guy LUTs who they found out of nowhere. De
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  Speaker 1: Grom last I checked, was the only guy who has
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  Speaker 1: a sub four RA in that group. So the group
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  Speaker 1: I think was in I think twelve in er. I
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: thought it would have been like fifth or sixth, but
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of guys that are like a little
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: over in the fours, and you know how that ballpark plays,
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: so I don't know. I was just a little bit
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: surprised when I was diving into some numbers for a
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  Speaker 1: team that we don't cover a ton and Rocker, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, was he got the old sorry, dude, you
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  Speaker 1: you're not good enough for the first inning, so he
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  Speaker 1: pitched in bulk innings. But he's got a four to
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  Speaker 1: one four. So the same thing. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: guys that are just tickling that four line.
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  Speaker 2: Their park adjusted starting rotation is bad because they got
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: I mean, it should be much lower. But yeah, Kumar
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  Speaker 2: Rocker definitely needed an opener because his swing and miss
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: stuff would not have worked first. So I'm glad sarcasm
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  Speaker 2: sarcasm alert, Okay, but getting twenty that's why Dylan Cees
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  Speaker 2: got paid what he did by the Jays, And people
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: were like, how could a guy with these numbers? Yes,
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: I get your peripheral numbers. I get he doesn't go
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: innings all that stuff. Swing and miss there is zero
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  Speaker 2: chance you get a hit if you swing and miss
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  Speaker 2: at a pitch. I know that's mind boggling to people.
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  Speaker 2: But you saw what he did the other day when
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  Speaker 2: he came off the IL. I think it was like
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  Speaker 2: twenty nine swings and misses. Dudes that can do that
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  Speaker 2: get paid because there's no variance in a swing and
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  Speaker 2: a miss.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: Also on the topic of swinging mits, and it was
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: a little better for him before he got hurt. Ellie
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  Speaker 1: de la Cruz is back for the Red Legs and
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: that should be a nice version of energy they do. Hey,
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: they had a really nice weekend rebound. I mean they
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: got beat up on Friday by cam Cy Young Schlitler,
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: and then the Yankees were beat up pretty good by
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: the Reds offense. But like you've seen those bursts, but
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: you're not seeing it consistently. Helps to have someone like
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  Speaker 1: Ellie dla Cruz back because yesterday again, I mean it
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  Speaker 1: was zero zero heading into the tenth against a good
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: Brewers pitching staff and Brandon Woodridch was sick, but they
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  Speaker 1: lost two to one. On Monday. Ellie de la Cruz
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  Speaker 1: back for Tuesday, who's also had a great defensive year
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  Speaker 1: two before he got hurt. He keeps he's improving on
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: that side. Yes, much improved, like just a little place
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  Speaker 1: he does the crazy stuff. Now he's doing the stuff
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: that you want to see done that prevents the mistakes.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm excited Ellie's back now. It needs to stay healthy.
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: That's part of the maturation, learning what it takes. You
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: can't just go out there and play ball at whatever
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: level you want to play at.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: Yep, agreed, all right, we'll be back on Wednesday. I
• 40:39
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