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Josh Reddick: Viral Yamamoto comments, 2017 scandal list, Buzzer theory debunked, Astros to-do list · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: I love the off season two list. We can continue
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Speaker 1: with the Houston Astros Today's team and Josh Reddick Pump
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Speaker 1: to join us right now. You can hear them on
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Speaker 1: Crush Shitty Territory, Best in the Biz in the Houston
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Speaker 1: Astros podcast world. So Josh, good to see you, dude.
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Speaker 1: Loving hearing you on the pod. Can you tell me
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Speaker 1: what you have as the top three on the checklist
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Speaker 1: for the Astros this offseason?
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Speaker 2: Man, guys, just thanks for having me just to start off.
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Speaker 2: Always love coming on here with you boys. Love the
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Speaker 2: conversation you were having with Buck, but we'll get to
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Speaker 2: that later. I'm looking starting pitching, reliable left handed bat
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Speaker 2: for that lineup, and then focus on runners in scoring position.
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Speaker 2: They had an awful time last season hitting with runners
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Speaker 2: in scoring position and that kind of connects to striking
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Speaker 2: out a lot more in baseball. So those are the
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Speaker 2: three things I'm focused on right now. If I'm the Astros, all.
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Speaker 3: Right, starting pitching, where are we going to go to? Here?
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Speaker 3: Are we going? Are we going deep into mister Crane's
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Speaker 3: bag of money?
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Speaker 2: Or does he ever do that?
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Speaker 3: He's done it. Astro fans need to understand he's done it.
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Speaker 3: He doesn't go deep deep into his bag except for
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Speaker 3: his except for his gods son Carlos Korea. He got
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Speaker 3: he brought him back. But is it going to be
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Speaker 3: like that, like one year fill it in because they
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Speaker 3: lost Framberg. They lost to do that Vega thirty two
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Speaker 3: starts every single year for them.
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Speaker 2: And eating innings. He was throwing a lot of innings
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Speaker 2: for that ball club too, whether he was giving up
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Speaker 2: zero or giving up five, he was still going like
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Speaker 2: seven strong for those guys. So you're not gonna get
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Speaker 2: a guy like fromber on this market. It's not. It's
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Speaker 2: just impossible. So you got to move past that and
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Speaker 2: you know, try to find maybe two guys. They just
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Speaker 2: sign the international contract for low money, so they're hoping
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Speaker 2: that's one option. But they still need a guy who's
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Speaker 2: gonna be front of that rotation, somebody who can help
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Speaker 2: Hunter Brown eat up innings and give them legit act
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Speaker 2: to back chances to win ball games. So I think
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Speaker 2: starting pitching, who it's gonna be is gonna be fun
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Speaker 2: to watch. These Winter meetings are gonna be a blast
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Speaker 2: with the way teams are gonna just you know, fire
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Speaker 2: sale or give up stuff and go buy stuff. But
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Speaker 2: I think Dylan C's signing has set the tone very
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Speaker 2: high for a lot of pictures that are gonna sit
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Speaker 2: back and wait and see what they can get.
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Speaker 3: Does he dip his toes in the trade market for
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Speaker 3: a higher level starting pitcher that like a Freddie Peralta
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Speaker 3: we heard Hunter Green's available, that is more in the
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Speaker 3: Jim Crane palatable price range, but still being able to say, Okay,
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Speaker 3: I'm able to replace Frambor with this and less cash.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we got, we got. We know that. You know,
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Speaker 2: trades are always possible no matter who you are in
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Speaker 2: this business, unless you're like Superstar five. So like hose
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Speaker 2: Al Twov is not getting traded. But when you look
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Speaker 2: at guys like you know, Jake Myers has been talked
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Speaker 2: about a lot I read, you know, just think Jesus
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Speaker 2: Sanchez is getting some looks now, so they're hoping maybe
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Speaker 2: to package something like that. But that's definitely something that's
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Speaker 2: always on the table for Jim Crane. It's like you
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Speaker 2: just mentioned, he loves doing that, and you know, we
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Speaker 2: we've seen him pass where crazier trades have happened. You know,
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Speaker 2: I recall the Lester for cessmentist trade that was so
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Speaker 2: crazy and mind blowing at the time. So anything is popped,
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Speaker 2: it really changes a lot of things.
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Speaker 4: Josh, the next thing on your list is left handed hitter. Well,
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Speaker 4: they have yourd on Alvarez. They traded for Sanchez, right,
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Speaker 4: There's a free agent they got rid of named Kyle Tucker.
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Speaker 4: I know they're not bringing him back, but he would
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Speaker 4: still look nice in so so I mean, is it
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Speaker 4: is it just though, just getting a full year out
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Speaker 4: of Alvarez? Like if you just throw him out there
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Speaker 4: for a full year and you let Sanchez be there
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Speaker 4: for a full year, there's two good left handed bats.
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Speaker 4: Obviously Alvarez can be one of the best hitters in baseball.
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Speaker 4: Will they go out and spend to get another one?
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Speaker 2: I think they've kind of almost seems like they've almost
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Speaker 2: set sail with the Hazers Sanchez experience. I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I think when he got traded, he kind of fell
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Speaker 2: off the face of the earth. So I don't know
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Speaker 2: if they're hanging on to him and if they're going
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Speaker 2: to move on from it, But it seems like they're
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Speaker 2: just they're trying to find a way to get out
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Speaker 2: of there, you know, maybe do a little bit more
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Speaker 2: salary dump like they did with the do bond swap,
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Speaker 2: to make something that they can, you know, kind of
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Speaker 2: offer more to a starting pitcher. I think that's something
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Speaker 2: that they will always be listening on if they can
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Speaker 2: make the right deal to give them a little bit
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Speaker 2: more zeros in the bank account to make things happen.
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Speaker 2: I think that Jim Crane will definitely pull that trigger.
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Speaker 2: And if they can get somebody to help support your
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Speaker 2: done in that lineup from the left hand side, I
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Speaker 2: think it makes his job a lot easier because they
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Speaker 2: are so reliant on right handers in that lineup.
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Speaker 3: All right hitting with runs and the scoring position. You
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Speaker 3: said it's kind of a strikeout issue. It's kind of
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Speaker 3: can it be taught to one player or in my opinion,
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Speaker 3: it's a full team approach, which it looked like without
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Speaker 3: your don I get it, it looked like the Astros
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Speaker 3: this year did not have the same team approach that
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Speaker 3: the great Astros teams.
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Speaker 2: Hat. Yeah, I think that's, you know, that's the team
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Speaker 2: philosophy you look. You look at bringing in a guy
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Speaker 2: like Victor Rodriguez, who's been very well known for contact
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Speaker 2: hitting and his career. I had him when I was
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Speaker 2: in the minors with the Red Sox. He was our
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Speaker 2: minor league hitting coordinator, and then that's what we were
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Speaker 2: preaching back in those days. And I know us older players,
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Speaker 2: you guys can agree with me, like not hitting with
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Speaker 2: runners and score position and putting the ball in play
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Speaker 2: is so disappointing at heart and heartbreaking when you strike
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Speaker 2: out to in the inning and you're walking back with
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Speaker 2: your head down. At least try to put something in play,
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Speaker 2: make something happen. I know this is you know, a
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Speaker 2: league wide problem, but I'm setting my old ways on
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Speaker 2: this one. Put the ball in play. You never know
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Speaker 2: what's going to happen because you got a way better
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Speaker 2: shot of getting that run in than you do striking out.
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Speaker 2: So the long ball don't always isn't always something you
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Speaker 2: can have to rely on.
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Speaker 3: You're not setting your ways, you're setting your winning ways.
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Speaker 3: It's not your old ways winning ways. How is that?
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Speaker 3: But how is that? Exe? How does that taunt? What
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Speaker 3: are some what are some things that you heard when
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Speaker 3: you were in the minor leagues of how okay, this
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Speaker 3: is how you this is how you execute you know,
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Speaker 3: in runners in scoring position. Dale Swayne twenty fifteen fourteen
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Speaker 3: and fifteen in Kansas City would always talk about the
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Speaker 3: team that elevates the ball to the opposite field with
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Speaker 3: runners in scoring position more than the rest drives in
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Speaker 3: more runs.
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Speaker 2: Kind of sick, I mean, but it's it's very simple.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's literally it's old school, it's cliche. But
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Speaker 2: you shorten up. You have to choke up if you
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Speaker 2: have to, if you're comfortable that you shorten that stride
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Speaker 2: up beyond belief. All these high leg kicks and super
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Speaker 2: massive stretching to get behind the ball is great before
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Speaker 2: two strikes. But guys, you gotta slow it down. You
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Speaker 2: gotta just you gotta shoot that thing in that sixth hole.
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Speaker 2: You know is the left, you're shooting it over in
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Speaker 2: the sixth hole. If you're right, you're trying to shoot
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Speaker 2: the four hole. You're trying to get something that you
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Speaker 2: can get inside of and try to just squeeze one
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Speaker 2: in there. But I love that. The guys who can
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Speaker 2: lift that ball the other way, you're gonna do a
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Speaker 2: lot better. You look at the two teams this year
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Speaker 2: in the World Series, I mean, the Blue Jays were
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Speaker 2: struck out I think the least and had the best
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Speaker 2: team batting average in the league. And then obviously the
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Speaker 2: Dodgers are the Dodgers, and they do everything great because
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Speaker 2: they are the Dodgers. But you know, the two best
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Speaker 2: teams put the ball in play and look where it
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Speaker 2: got him, and it gave us one of the best
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Speaker 2: World Series we've seen in a very long time.
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Speaker 3: All Right, two things. One, I love Victor Rodriguez. I
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Speaker 3: had him in Boston. He was awesome. You still see
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Speaker 3: him in one.
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Speaker 4: Of my favorite coaches I ever had, just positive, great,
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Speaker 4: great guy to have as a hitting coach. And then
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Speaker 4: you mentioned one of the best World Series since a
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Speaker 4: certain time. Well, I'm going to go back to twenty seventeen.
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Speaker 4: It was a pretty good World Series. And I want
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Speaker 4: to and I just want to know this. It was
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Speaker 4: a great World Series. I just I've for some reason
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Speaker 4: on my Instagram feed it has been you and talking
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Speaker 4: about the twenty seventeen World Series and the whole run
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Speaker 4: and everything that happened, right, And you're the first guy
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Speaker 4: I've seen talk about it on that team, like there
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Speaker 4: hasn't been one other guy bringing up And you have
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Speaker 4: your opinion of why Mike Fires did it and why.
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Speaker 4: But to me, I just want to give you kudos
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Speaker 4: for talking about it. Like whatever you want to say
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Speaker 4: on here is great, But you're the only guy I've
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Speaker 4: seen even met like no everyone else, like I don't
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Speaker 4: want to talk about it.
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Speaker 3: I don't want to talk about it.
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Speaker 2: So thank you for saying something.
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 4: Mike Fires, I know you from playing against you, but like,
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Speaker 4: thank you for saying something about it, because at least
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Speaker 4: now we kind of have an idea what was going on.
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Speaker 2: So thank you. Yeah, I mean, you know, it's public knowledge,
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Speaker 2: So I mean, at this point, it's not something that
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Speaker 2: I'm trying to run away from, and it's it's a
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Speaker 2: part of us as players. You know, it's something that happened,
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Speaker 2: So why try to ignore something that happened. And you know,
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Speaker 2: all these fans and whoever's in listening commenting, you know,
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Speaker 2: I'll tell you to the day I die, and I
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Speaker 2: did not use it. I'm one of the guys that
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Speaker 2: did not use the system. Meow, Tuv and Tony Kemp
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Speaker 2: are the three guys who didn't even think about using it.
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Speaker 2: And that's not even coming from me as a direct source. First,
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Speaker 2: like Carlos Korea came out and said it the day
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Speaker 2: after we went with met with the media that spring
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Speaker 2: training of twenty twenty. So it's not like I'm making
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Speaker 2: stuff up. It's been proven that. You know, people are
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Speaker 2: gonna be biased, and I get it, Like I had
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Speaker 2: over three hundred for the only time in my career.
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Speaker 2: I had the highest ops in my career. Like, all
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Speaker 2: these numbers add up. But yeah, you know what, you know,
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Speaker 2: how many fastballs I got hitting between George Springer and
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Speaker 2: Jose Altuve. A lot easier to hit when you get
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Speaker 2: a lot of fastballs with the World Series MVP and
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Speaker 2: the League in MVP hitting behind you. So Josh Reddick
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Speaker 2: did not cheat, Josh Raich did not use it. So
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Speaker 2: you guys can keep talking all the crap you want
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Speaker 2: to out there. It doesn't affect me one bit. I
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Speaker 2: love it. I feed off of it.
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Speaker 3: All right. So does that affect Carlos Beltron's Hall of
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Speaker 3: Fame status? Because in my opinion, it probably wasn't the
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Speaker 3: first time he ever did it, but he's still a
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Speaker 3: really good player. So what, like, should people be up
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Speaker 3: in arms about that kind of stuff?
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Speaker 2: No, I mean I don't think so. If anybody knows
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Speaker 2: how great of a human being Carlos Beltron is anyway,
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Speaker 2: you're rooting for him and you're cheering for me, and
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Speaker 2: he obviously deserves that, and something like this can't, in
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Speaker 2: my opinion, can't be a red flag for something like that,
9:58
Speaker 2: just like you know, you look at the guys the Bonds,
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Speaker 2: the Roger Clemens and all these guys, like it's kind
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Speaker 2: of the same category when you look into it, like
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Speaker 2: you know, there there's that what if factor in this
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Speaker 2: little you know, etch on their on their career. But
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Speaker 2: you know what, it doesn't take away the fact that
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Speaker 2: the numbers they put up even before that. And you
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Speaker 2: can't really let one year or two years solidify that
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Speaker 2: because this guy had a Hall of Fame career before
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Speaker 2: this was even talked about, and you know, this was
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Speaker 2: something at the end of his career, before he was
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Speaker 2: or after he was out of his prime and did
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Speaker 2: miraculous things that you know, players have dreamed about doing
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Speaker 2: in their career. So no, I don't think so.
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Speaker 4: All right, So then Jose wait, JOSEL two. They we
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Speaker 4: have a lot of Yankee fans that work here. Jose
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Speaker 4: two didn't have a wire on him buzzing his chest.
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Speaker 2: That is the most ridiculous. Listen, that's the.
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Speaker 4: Most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. So, I mean, if
10:48
Speaker 4: he did, gosh, that's awesome, but I can't believe it,
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Speaker 4: and he would be the only one like, gosh, dang,
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Speaker 4: that's that's unbelieved.
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Speaker 2: Guys. But if and it sounds it sounds crazy. But
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Speaker 2: if you've ever seen this tattoo that how he had
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Speaker 2: on his chest, it was the worst tattoo I've ever
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Speaker 2: seen done. And so that that was one that was
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Speaker 2: one reason he didn't taken And his wife didn't appreciate
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Speaker 2: the tattoo anyway and didn't want him showing his chest,
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Speaker 2: so he respected her wishes of not you know, being
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Speaker 2: being half naked out there. For me, I probably would
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Speaker 2: have ripped everything off. If I'm looking at it, you know,
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Speaker 2: I hit that ball like that, I probably don't come
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Speaker 2: around home plate. But nothing but sliders on. So credit
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Speaker 2: to him for you know, keeping it, keeping it real
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Speaker 2: and keeping his emotions. But a buzzer. Guys, come on,
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Speaker 2: everybody listening, Yankees. You get beat by him every year
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Speaker 2: you're in the postseason. Let it go.
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Speaker 3: I like it. I like it all right, last.
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Speaker 4: Thing on this and then we're gonna go to something
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Speaker 4: else that you've also brought up.
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Speaker 3: But Mike Fires was the guy who did it? Why why?
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Speaker 4: I mean, I've seen what you said about losing his
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Speaker 4: rotation spot. But has anyone any of your twenty seventeen
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Speaker 4: team actually asked him?
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Speaker 3: Has anyone do you guys? Does anybody still speak to him?
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Speaker 4: I mean how, Because there's an old thing in baseball,
11:54
Speaker 4: as you know, what happens in the clubhouse stays in
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Speaker 4: the clubhouse. You know, we all know that, But things
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Speaker 4: get out, things get lead whatever. But does anyone actually
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Speaker 4: talked to Mike Fires and said why?
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Speaker 2: Dude? I mean, I have it. He was not a
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Speaker 2: guy I talked to anyway when I was at the field.
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Speaker 2: We weren't of the best of terms when I signed there,
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Speaker 2: didn't really appreciate him before, and then he showed us
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Speaker 2: true colors when the Justin Burlander trade happened. But no,
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Speaker 2: I don't know if anybody really truly did ask him,
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Speaker 2: And if they did, they didn't tell me or other
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Speaker 2: people about it. So will we ever know why he
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Speaker 2: did it? No, he probably never admit that. But you know,
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Speaker 2: when you play with a guy and you see the
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Speaker 2: things that are setting text conversations about acquiring the best
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Speaker 2: picture in baseball. You know, it's kind of it's kind
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Speaker 2: of upsetting when you're when you're trying to go out
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Speaker 2: there and win it all and you're already one of
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Speaker 2: the better teams in baseball. Then you get a guy
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Speaker 2: like Justin Berlander to your rotation. You're getting mad about it.
12:45
Speaker 2: Like I've told this story many times, and I tell
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Speaker 2: my friends and guys like, look, if I could compare that,
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Speaker 2: I'd be like somebody like me losing their job to
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Speaker 2: Mike Trout in his prime, and I'd be like, I'm
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Speaker 2: gonna be mad about that. Like, bro, go get me
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Speaker 2: a World Series ring. I'm good, Like I'll be the
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Speaker 2: man top step high five and every time you.
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Speaker 3: Go deep, Yeah, but what are we doing.
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Speaker 2: Like be a team that's just not a team guy,
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Speaker 2: Like that's just not being a team guy. And like
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Speaker 2: you said, that's a brotherhood that you've brought. Not only broken.
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Speaker 2: You know, former teammates trust you're broken. Guys that don't
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Speaker 2: even know you were played against you trust, Like it's
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Speaker 2: just not just so. I hope he's he's happy he
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Speaker 2: did it. I don't know if he's what he's doing nowadays,
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Speaker 2: but you know, good for him, I guess he can
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Speaker 2: sleep better at night.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, whatever, All right, So now you fired up, you
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Speaker 4: fired up Yankee fans, you got Houston fans fired up.
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Speaker 4: Now we're gonna go to the Dodgers. All right, let's
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Speaker 4: do said Yamamoto. Yamamoto wasn't worth it. Every Dodger fit
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Speaker 4: in our chat is reddick if Yamamoto was worth it. Now,
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Speaker 4: like nobody knew what this guy was gonna be. So
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Speaker 4: you gave your opinion.
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Speaker 3: We all give our opinion.
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Speaker 2: We're wrong sometimes we are. I've been wrong, so I'd
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Speaker 2: say that, I'd say it. I'd say it tomorrow if
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Speaker 2: somebody else signed for that much money. But you know what,
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Speaker 2: I was wrong on this one. I've said it on
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Speaker 2: our podcast with Chandler and Tyler Stafford. So it's like
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Speaker 2: I've said it, but you know what here it is.
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Speaker 2: I was wrong, Like you said, it's an opinion. I
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Speaker 2: had it. Opinion was wrong for that time. He's obviously
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Speaker 2: a very, very very talented picture. We saw what he
14:19
Speaker 2: could do in the postseason, he saw what he could
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Speaker 2: do in the regular season. So I tip my cap
14:23
Speaker 2: to him. He's obviously very good. I was wrong. Dodgers
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Speaker 2: fans do I apologize, probably not, but good for him.
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Speaker 2: He's a great picture. I'm glad I don't have to
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Speaker 2: face him because that splitter is terrifying. And good for
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Speaker 2: he had a fantastic World Series. Man, even with my
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Speaker 2: opinion being wrong, it was so fun to watch him
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Speaker 2: put on the show.
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Speaker 3: With what he did in this World Series. His last year,
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Speaker 3: he was hurt for part of the year. Is the
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Speaker 3: contract worth it? We always have this question, and is
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Speaker 3: the three and twenty five million for twelve years? I
14:55
Speaker 3: think Scott will remind me if I'm wrong, But is
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Speaker 3: it worth it if this this series sets him back,
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Speaker 3: or you know it's just the one good year, one
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Speaker 3: World Series championship. I know he wants the money.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the both sides of the thing where things
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Speaker 2: are still funny because it's such a long term contract.
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Speaker 2: You know, is this one year gonna be everything he's
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Speaker 2: gotten in the in the tank? Who knows. We'll just
15:22
Speaker 2: have to wait and find out. But if you're looking
15:24
Speaker 2: at a Dodgers team who has no problem spending this money,
15:26
Speaker 2: deferring this money, which I love. By the way, I
15:29
Speaker 2: will say that Dodgers aren't ruining baseball. I love it.
15:32
Speaker 2: If you want to win, go pay for the win anyway.
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Speaker 2: So if it's you know, three years from now and
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Speaker 2: he's you know, even three quarters of what he was now,
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Speaker 2: like absolutely one hundred percent worth it. But if I'm
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Speaker 2: the Dodgers, one year of this, for what he's done
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Speaker 2: for that ball club is already worth it to me
15:47
Speaker 2: because we're not worried about money. We're gonna find our
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Speaker 2: ways to win. And I feel like this is something
15:51
Speaker 2: that if they can manage his breaks like they've done
15:56
Speaker 2: that year and then use him like they did in
15:58
Speaker 2: the postseason, he's obviously got that dog getting saw that,
16:01
Speaker 2: but you know, resting him up and do right with
16:03
Speaker 2: with with pitching in the regular season because that lineup
16:06
Speaker 2: is going to give you a pretty good run support
16:08
Speaker 2: more often than they're not going to. So he should
16:10
Speaker 2: have plenty of arrest to be able to do this
16:12
Speaker 2: year in year out and make it at some point,
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Speaker 2: hopefully at one point for them and underpay for them.
16:18
Speaker 2: That's what they're kind of hoping for you. If he
16:19
Speaker 2: could continue to do this, it's going to be an
16:21
Speaker 2: underpay for what they got out of you.
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Speaker 4: He's been great, so far, so good, all right, before
16:25
Speaker 4: we let you go, you have your you have your
16:27
Speaker 4: gold glove behind you, right, which.
16:28
Speaker 2: Is cool and all. I mean I got so I gotta,
16:30
Speaker 2: I gotta.
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Speaker 4: I got a silver bat that Scott made me take
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Speaker 4: out of my house, so I can't show that off anymore.
16:35
Speaker 4: But because I have a silver back, because I was
16:38
Speaker 4: good one year.
16:39
Speaker 3: Right.
16:39
Speaker 2: But before we let you go, body make a ticket.
16:42
Speaker 4: I know you're a wrestling fan, so I just want
16:44
Speaker 4: to know how jealous you are of this belt?
16:47
Speaker 2: Oh wait, my bad wait or this belt?
16:51
Speaker 4: Oh wait, sorry, I only got two arms, but what
16:53
Speaker 4: about this.
16:54
Speaker 2: Belt that I all want? That I want all in
16:56
Speaker 2: the ring? I know somebody that.
16:58
Speaker 3: Has never been in the ring.
17:00
Speaker 4: Actually, like, how mad are you that I got three
17:02
Speaker 4: belts from actually going into the ring.
17:05
Speaker 2: I've been in the ring. I've never competed in it,
17:08
Speaker 2: So we're gonna make that clear, real real fu.
17:10
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, anyone could walk into but I've actually
17:13
Speaker 4: fought ring.
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Speaker 2: No, how sick, super jealous, and I'm jealous of the
17:17
Speaker 2: raid at our superstar belt, the Edge one.
17:20
Speaker 4: I don't have this one personally given to me, the
17:25
Speaker 4: Center belt and in the in the prime of his heel,
17:27
Speaker 4: run the prime run and then obviously e c W
17:31
Speaker 4: given to me by Tommy Dreamer.
17:34
Speaker 2: Oh the dream right dream, Last.
17:38
Speaker 4: But not least, this is a real one X division
17:42
Speaker 4: won it in the ring. A beat the crap out
17:45
Speaker 4: of Diamond Diamond, and then David Eckstein tried to take
17:48
Speaker 4: it and I beat the crap out of him just
17:49
Speaker 4: for fun because he's a little fellow.
17:51
Speaker 2: And that that's that was no challenge, no him but him.
17:56
Speaker 4: And so the best part about that, Josha love this
17:58
Speaker 4: is when we decided to do this whole thing with Steyn,
18:00
Speaker 4: his brother Rick, who now is the coach of Team USA,
18:03
Speaker 4: and it was my bullpen coach back when I was
18:05
Speaker 4: with the Bullpen Catcher. Sorry, when I was with the Twins.
18:08
Speaker 4: We couldn't touch David, so we had to beat up
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Speaker 4: Rick instead. So David put his brother Rick as for.
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Speaker 3: Us to beat up.
18:15
Speaker 2: Yes, it all came back and bit him right in
18:18
Speaker 2: the butt.
18:19
Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
18:19
Speaker 4: So anyways, I know you're a big wrestling fan. So
18:22
Speaker 4: what happens in Sena Sena's last match?
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Speaker 2: I mean, they always let the guy loose to retire,
18:29
Speaker 2: but he's already been so well adamant about retiring with
18:32
Speaker 2: when he's going to retire, He's got to walk off
18:34
Speaker 2: with a win, right, He's got to be the guy
18:35
Speaker 2: that walks off with that win because it was so
18:38
Speaker 2: expected for him to be gone from wrestling. So, uh,
18:41
Speaker 2: it's going to be emotional. Man, I can't wait to
18:43
Speaker 2: watch it. You know, I've been through ups and downs
18:47
Speaker 2: with Scene. I hated him at first because when he
18:49
Speaker 2: came up, man, he was the hottest thing on the planet.
18:51
Speaker 2: And now you know, I was I have a Triple
18:52
Speaker 2: H guy, always been a Triple H guy. And he
18:55
Speaker 2: was beating Triple H left and right for the title
18:57
Speaker 2: and title defenses in his prime. He returned it Rumble
19:00
Speaker 2: to eliminate Triple As to win the Rumble that year
19:02
Speaker 2: after the you know, the peck injury came back early.
19:05
Speaker 2: So we've gone through ups and downs. John, I met him,
19:07
Speaker 2: you know, I met him when I played for Boston.
19:09
Speaker 2: I've got to, you know, be very fortunate. The Triple
19:13
Speaker 2: H has allowed me to be backstage whenever we come
19:15
Speaker 2: to shows and you know, hang out in the food room.
19:17
Speaker 2: So I've met wrestlers day in and day out, and
19:19
Speaker 2: John just coming up and meeting me and knowing who
19:21
Speaker 2: I was was fun. So now I had nothing to
19:23
Speaker 2: do but to cheer for him, and uh, it's it's
19:25
Speaker 2: it's gonna be emotional. Will I cry? Maybe maybe not,
19:28
Speaker 2: we'll see, but it'll be a great sind off for
19:30
Speaker 2: John Cena either way.
19:32
Speaker 3: All Right, So I got to tell you the story.
19:34
Speaker 3: I know we got to go.
19:35
Speaker 4: But so on Saturday, I was at the Florida Florida
19:37
Speaker 4: State game, right, and I was down on the field
19:38
Speaker 4: and Titus O'Neill, you know, go dogs, Yeah whatever.
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Speaker 2: Anyways, we're not gonna talking about that.
19:44
Speaker 4: But Titus O'Neill was down there, and I was with
19:48
Speaker 4: my son and a friend of his and another buddy
19:50
Speaker 4: of mine. And so he says, he goes up to
19:52
Speaker 4: Titus O'Neill he may or may not have had some
19:54
Speaker 4: alcoholic beverages, and he goes He's about six foot one seventy, right,
19:58
Speaker 4: Titus O'Neil's like sixty five two eight.
20:00
Speaker 2: He just looks at him and goes, he goes, what's up?
20:02
Speaker 2: He goes, what's your workout program?
20:04
Speaker 3: Like? What what do you do in the gym? It
20:07
Speaker 3: was the funniest.
20:11
Speaker 2: Yeah, massive, massive title.
20:15
Speaker 3: It was one of you way off subject. But anyways,
20:17
Speaker 3: it was hilarious.
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Speaker 2: No, I love that, I love I love wresting stories.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, just just what do you do in the gym, bro? Uh?
20:25
Speaker 3: Not what you're doing clearly.
20:27
Speaker 1: A lot, how time, a lot more than you bud
20:30
Speaker 1: get out of here. That question in general, when you
20:34
Speaker 1: get the like, oh, what's your workout plan? Like, if
20:37
Speaker 1: someone can answer that in a sentence or two, you
20:39
Speaker 1: probably don't want them answering that for you.
20:43
Speaker 2: There's a little tip you don't. You don't have the
20:45
Speaker 2: dedication that those guys have. Yeah, they're on another planet.
20:49
Speaker 3: Uh dude.
20:50
Speaker 1: This was awesome, so great to catch on with you.
20:52
Speaker 1: We love having you on, We love listening across city territory.
20:55
Speaker 1: Keep doing your thing.
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Speaker 2: We'll get you back soon. A right, good to see
20:57
Speaker 2: you sound good, guys, Thanks for having me.