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Jim Duquette talks Tarik Skubal landing spots, Mets deadline fire sale, Bryce Harper’s plea for help · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Former MLBGM Jim Duquette joining us right now for a
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  Speaker 1: little sweet life talk. So Duke excited? Where's Trek scouogle gown?
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  Speaker 2: What's up, guys?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, you have more rumors there, Agent, I know how
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  Speaker 3: you love him?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I you know what. I I don't know how
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  Speaker 2: you guys feel about this.
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  Speaker 3: I'm so down on how Detroit has handled this situation
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  Speaker 3: with Schooble.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: They for me, even though I mean, if if they
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  Speaker 3: were going to do this now, and I think they've
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  Speaker 3: had their mind set on moving him, not just over
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  Speaker 3: the last couple of days, but more than a week now.
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  Speaker 2: They just were waiting for the.
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  Speaker 3: Opportunity to do it, and they were worried about the
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  Speaker 3: what the how it would look. Then they should have
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  Speaker 3: traded him, you know, a while ago they should have
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  Speaker 3: traded you know, when they had they won six games
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  Speaker 3: in May, you know, think about moving him back then.
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  Speaker 3: Right now, they're one of the teams that has actually
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  Speaker 3: played well since June first, right they I mean outstanding
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  Speaker 3: without notwithstanding the last five games where they've lost four
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  Speaker 3: to the last five and in a lot of ways.
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  Speaker 2: The sign is they're there.
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  Speaker 3: They were trending up and now because they lose two
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  Speaker 3: to Baltimore and two to.
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  Speaker 2: The Kansas City. Now they're going to decide to move them.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I just think it's not been handled
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  Speaker 2: very well.
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  Speaker 3: You can go back even last winter, so right now
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  Speaker 3: if you want to handicap it, you know, I put
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  Speaker 3: the Dodgers aside for a minute, just because they're annoying
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  Speaker 3: when it comes to getting the best players. They seem
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  Speaker 3: to get them all the time. But you have to
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  Speaker 3: look hard at Milwaukee, you have to look hard at Atlanta,
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  Speaker 3: you have to look really really deep into Tampa. Those
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  Speaker 3: are the three that keep coming up the most. I
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  Speaker 3: still think in the end, the Dodgers will end up
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  Speaker 3: getting them because they just sit there and they wait
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  Speaker 3: and they negotiate better than anybody.
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  Speaker 2: They wait and they wait and they wait.
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  Speaker 3: And see what the final price is and they just
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  Speaker 3: add that one last piece that gets them.
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  Speaker 2: Over the top.
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  Speaker 3: And so you know, I don't think it's great for
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  Speaker 3: the sport, but I think the Dodgers will end up
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  Speaker 3: getting well.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I hope that doesn't happen, just because I
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  Speaker 5: think that if the Dodgers get them, they're going to
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  Speaker 5: probably win three in a row and whereas if a
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  Speaker 5: team like Milwaukee or Tampa gets some it changes that
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  Speaker 5: team and their smaller market. And I think it would
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  Speaker 5: be awesome for the game to have a one of
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  Speaker 5: those teams just because of as a player.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a CBA guy.
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  Speaker 5: Jim, what was the biggest trade that you ever made
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  Speaker 5: as a former GM.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: When I was with the Mets actually as the assistant,
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  Speaker 3: when we traded for Piazza, that was like the huge,
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  Speaker 3: the biggest, the biggest trade that we've ever you know,
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  Speaker 3: made as an organization.
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  Speaker 2: So I'll I'll kind of tag along with that.
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  Speaker 3: I mean there were times there were there was I
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  Speaker 3: think more times that I had trades that were, you know,
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  Speaker 3: this close to being done and then the owner said no,
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  Speaker 3: like trading for uh, if you remember Irving Santana or
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  Speaker 3: Bartolo Cologne.
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  Speaker 2: With the Angels, we had a chance to get either.
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  Speaker 3: One of them, plus Eric Ibar, who was a short
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  Speaker 3: they're starting shortsight. That was for to hot it back
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  Speaker 3: back when I was with the Orioles, those would have
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  Speaker 3: that would have been the biggest deal. Or we could
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  Speaker 3: have had a chance to trade him to the Astros,
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  Speaker 3: to Hi to the Astros, and we could have gotten
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  Speaker 3: Roy Olswalt and Morgan Ensburg and one other. So I
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  Speaker 3: mean there are more deals I think that get talked
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  Speaker 3: about and discussed, Bigger deals that get discussed that don't
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  Speaker 3: get done then do get done at the deadline. That's
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  Speaker 3: what makes it so frustrating. To your point earlier on
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  Speaker 3: listening to these rumors, all these names, all these names
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  Speaker 3: are getting mentioned at the deadline, and most of them
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  Speaker 3: aren't going to go anywhere, all right.
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  Speaker 5: The reason I ask is because you mentioned that the
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  Speaker 5: Tigers have not handled Schooble very well. How would you
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  Speaker 5: have handled it? And what do you say to Terry'scoobel
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  Speaker 5: If you're Scott Harris and you're a J. Hinch and
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  Speaker 5: you're the Tiger's front office, what's your what's your communication.
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  Speaker 2: Level like with the star player at that level?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I feel bad for Hinch because he's had to
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  Speaker 3: answer these questions all year and more so over the
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  Speaker 3: last couple of weeks. And he came on my show
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  Speaker 3: the other day and he said, basically, I've tried to
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  Speaker 3: insulate my entire team from all these rumors and let's
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  Speaker 3: just have them focus on trying to win ball games
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  Speaker 3: and try not to worry about the other stuff that's
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  Speaker 3: going on around you. I think that's you know, if
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  Speaker 3: you can have that approach, that's the best one.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, if I.
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  Speaker 3: Were in the Tiger shoes, first off, I would have
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  Speaker 3: seriously consider trading him last year if you didn't think
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  Speaker 3: you could sign them up.
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't want to be in this position.
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  Speaker 3: I would have tried to, you know, make the team
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  Speaker 3: better in the winter time and then add around it
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  Speaker 3: and be you know, hopefully talking about, you know, trying
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  Speaker 3: to win the division. But since they made this decision already,
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  Speaker 3: for me, I look at what Baltimore did, whether you
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  Speaker 3: agree or disagree what the Twins have done.
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  Speaker 2: Agreeing or disagreeing.
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  Speaker 3: They came out early in Houston, I'll throw the Astros
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  Speaker 3: in there. They came out weeks ago and said we're buying,
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  Speaker 3: we're buying. And I think when you're playing, you guys
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  Speaker 3: tell me because you're the former player. But I know
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  Speaker 3: when I would sit there and I'd go into the
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  Speaker 3: clubhouse and sit there in front of the players, they
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  Speaker 3: didn't want to hear about.
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  Speaker 2: It was a huge distraction. If we were selling. All
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  Speaker 2: they wanted to know is where am I going, do
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  Speaker 2: you have anything like?
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  Speaker 3: That's all they asked about, and I got to believe
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  Speaker 3: that's the same thing that's been going on in Detroit.
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  Speaker 3: All they've been doing is wondering where's Scooball gonna go?
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  Speaker 3: And that's just a major distraction. It takes you away
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  Speaker 3: from winning, which is hard to do. So I think
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  Speaker 3: that's the other aspect that annoys me about the way
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  Speaker 3: they've handled this thing, is this is lingered for weeks,
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  Speaker 3: and I felt like the players have kind of been
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  Speaker 3: left hanging to ask these questions all the time, and
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  Speaker 3: it could have been squashed.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, you could just change your mind.
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  Speaker 3: On Sunday, and you know, the day before the deadline
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  Speaker 3: said you know what, we weren't playing well enough, so
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  Speaker 3: we trade them. But leaving that out there with all
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  Speaker 3: this uncertainty, I think has caused more issues than than
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  Speaker 3: it's solved.
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  Speaker 4: Jimmy said it'd be unfair if the Dodgers got Scooball.
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  Speaker 4: Do you know, like fans forget this isn't free agency,
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  Speaker 4: like this is trade deadline. Trade deadline, every team has
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  Speaker 4: the opportunity to get trek School, So why is that unfair?
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  Speaker 4: If the Dodgers make the strongest push.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's only unfair if you like parody and you
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  Speaker 3: like to see someone else win.
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  Speaker 2: That's all I don't want to, you know. Then the
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  Speaker 2: Dodgers like do I do? We want to see here?
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  Speaker 3: Here's what And you know this cratzy as well as
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  Speaker 3: I do. If the Dodgers win a third World Series,
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  Speaker 3: all we're gonna hear about in the next for the
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  Speaker 3: collective bargaining agreement is we need a salary cap because
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  Speaker 3: of the Dodgers. And I'm like, I'm sick of hearing
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  Speaker 3: about that too and denigrating the sport.
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  Speaker 2: The way we have over the last few weeks.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, to me, yeah, Milwaukee does have a chance
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  Speaker 3: to trade for them. They have a terrific farm system,
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  Speaker 3: and they have a starting pitcher like Logan Henderson that
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  Speaker 3: could go in and fit.
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  Speaker 2: In just fine, along with.
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  Speaker 3: Some other prospects, and they have enough prospects to do this.
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  Speaker 3: They tend to show restraint, you know, So so do
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  Speaker 3: the Cubs, who've shown, you know that they're interested in
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  Speaker 3: I would love to see the Cubs from twenty sixteen
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  Speaker 3: say you know what, I don't care about prospects.
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  Speaker 2: I want a.
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  Speaker 3: Championship again and go do what it takes to get
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  Speaker 3: the player. But there's a lot of general managers that
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  Speaker 3: aren't wired that way. And you know that to me
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  Speaker 3: is there's been a change over the last you know,
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  Speaker 3: ten years or more worried about keeping their job than.
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  Speaker 2: It is winning games.
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  Speaker 3: And partly too, the postseason is a crap shoot, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and you know it's a gauntlet, especially if you're going
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  Speaker 3: in through the wild card. But you know, I to me,
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  Speaker 3: if you have the web, if you have the assets
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  Speaker 3: to go get it, Trek scouble, we all know what
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  Speaker 3: Schooble on your team would do to help help get
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  Speaker 3: you to win a World Series. Like That's why I
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  Speaker 3: that's the other aspect with Detroit that drives me nuts
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  Speaker 3: about it. They have they still have the best guy,
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  Speaker 3: the best pitcher in the sport, and they still have
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  Speaker 3: a team that's good enough if they could get in
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  Speaker 3: the postseason to run the table and they're gonna, uh,
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  Speaker 3: they're gonna trade them. So you know, I would love
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  Speaker 3: to see any of those teams, not name the Dodgers,
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  Speaker 3: outbid the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't think it's gonna happen.
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  Speaker 5: But by the way, Jim, I love what you just
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  Speaker 5: said about the players, because Bryce Harper came out and said,
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  Speaker 5: we need to add every single he got quoted on this,
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  Speaker 5: and every single player I promise you that has a
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  Speaker 5: chance to make the postseason if you put a microphone
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  Speaker 5: in their face and say what, do you think they'd
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  Speaker 5: be like, yeah, I want better players. I want more players,
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  Speaker 5: you know what. And if I'm if you're a guy
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  Speaker 5: at Bryce Harper's level not getting traded there, of course
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  Speaker 5: they're going to say. Now, if you're the guy that
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  Speaker 5: possibly could be involved in the trade and go to
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  Speaker 5: a bad team, you might say, I don't know, but hey,
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  Speaker 5: at the end of the day, if you're a superstar
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  Speaker 5: player and you're a good player and you know you're
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  Speaker 5: not going anywhere, of course you want to add. That's
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  Speaker 5: why I just I love what you just said. Yes,
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  Speaker 5: because every player, if you're on a good team, was like, please, Jim,
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  Speaker 5: GM whoever is, get us some better players.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and I loved I didn't have a problem what
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  Speaker 3: Bryce had to say, and I most people shouldn't, and
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  Speaker 3: I don't think anybody in the club out did. I
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  Speaker 3: was a little surprised, you know, when Donnie manningly said
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  Speaker 3: what he did, and I understand, you know, I understand why.
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  Speaker 3: You know he's taking that side of it, obviously being
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  Speaker 3: the management side, and you know his son obviously as
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  Speaker 3: as the general manager.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, if you're if you're on.
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  Speaker 3: The team right or you're watching the team as often
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  Speaker 3: as we are.
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  Speaker 2: That's what they need.
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  Speaker 3: The Phillies need, and we all know they need offensive piece,
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  Speaker 3: they need bullpen help, and they need a backhand starter.
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  Speaker 3: Like those three things are obvious. Now, I will say that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, on Bryce's side of things, I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if he was necessarily doubting. Uh, Dave do prosk Like
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  Speaker 3: if you go back and look at last year's deadline,
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  Speaker 3: they made one of the boldest trades in the sport,
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  Speaker 3: right picking up Dryan to pitch at the backhand.
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  Speaker 2: That's what Dave has done.
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  Speaker 3: And Dave he is really good at doing that right
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  Speaker 3: every deadline. So if he had let me just say
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  Speaker 3: what it made them feel better if he had said
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  Speaker 3: in addition to what he did. Oh, but we know
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  Speaker 3: Dave has a history of making bold deals and so
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  Speaker 3: I'm looking forward you know something like that if he
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  Speaker 3: made would that have made it any better? I mean,
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  Speaker 3: that's so he left out one sentence that people are
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  Speaker 3: up in arms for what Bryce Harper had to say, like,
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  Speaker 3: of course he should be able to say that, and
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  Speaker 3: because it's the truth, right, So I didn't have a
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  Speaker 3: problem with it at all, And I don't know some
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  Speaker 3: people seem to think Dave Dombrowski would have a problem
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  Speaker 3: with it. I find that hard to believe that that
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  Speaker 3: would be an issue for him. He's already, you know,
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  Speaker 3: knee deep in it and trying to trying to make
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  Speaker 3: a bold move for them.
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  Speaker 4: I know everyone says they just want the best return
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  Speaker 4: for Trek Scooble, whatever the best return is. But wouldn't
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  Speaker 4: did Tigers kind of lean towards the fact that this
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  Speaker 4: team still is looking to win. They signed Framber Valdez.
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  Speaker 4: I know it didn't go well. Scott Harris said, oh man,
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  Speaker 4: this a year older. They're gonna get better, Like they
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  Speaker 4: believe this team is here to win. Wouldn't a team
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  Speaker 4: like the Braves or another team that has maybe big
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  Speaker 4: league pieces instead of four high A guys be the
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  Speaker 4: route that the Tigers were looking for or as a GM,
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  Speaker 4: do you just say nope, best overall package? No, No,
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  Speaker 4: nobody cares about what we're going to do next year.
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  Speaker 2: In their situation.
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  Speaker 3: I think what separates the teams to get Schooble versus
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  Speaker 3: not is going to be a high end starting pitcher
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  Speaker 3: that can go into the rotation right now. So with Atlanta,
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  Speaker 3: if you want to include you know, maybe they don't
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  Speaker 3: care for aj Smith Shaver and the uncertainty with that
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  Speaker 3: just coming back from Tommy John.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe they want Jr. Richie instead. The Brewers have Logan Henderson.
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  Speaker 2: I know the Brewers don't want to.
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  Speaker 3: Give them up, but I mean to get Trek Scouogle,
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  Speaker 3: they would do it. The Dodgers have Emmitt Sheen like
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  Speaker 3: that part whatever that uh, those pieces are to get Schooble,
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  Speaker 3: I think it's gonna have to include a starting pitcher
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  Speaker 3: that goes right into the rotation right away.
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  Speaker 2: And then whatever.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the next best piece might be from the
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  Speaker 3: minor leagues, like you're like your suggestion and when That's
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  Speaker 3: how I would view it, and I think that's how
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  Speaker 3: the Tigers.
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  Speaker 2: Are going to view it. Is all right, what what? So?
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  Speaker 3: So we know what we're giving up here the final
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  Speaker 3: two months, but we're gonna soften it or mitigate that
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  Speaker 3: by getting a major league piece that fits into the
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  Speaker 3: rotation right now. Oh by the way, Jackson job is
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  Speaker 3: coming back too, and so you know, between those two guys,
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  Speaker 3: maybe in their mind it equals the results that Schooble
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  Speaker 3: would give them. I don't see it quite like that,
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  Speaker 3: but I could see a front office thinking along those lines.
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  Speaker 5: You're great, Jim, whatever it takes, whatever it takes to
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  Speaker 5: get Schooble to the Razor Brewers, I'm all for, like you.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, the Dodgers are the Dodgers. They already have enough,
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  Speaker 5: so I can we talk about some other people? Though?
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  Speaker 5: Can we not talk about Trek Scool for a little bit.
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  Speaker 5: We're the Mets GM. What's it like when you trade
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  Speaker 5: for a guy like Freddy Peralta and then he doesn't
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  Speaker 5: have the year you expect and now you're thinking about moving?
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  Speaker 5: What does that do to an organization, a team a GM?
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  Speaker 5: Does that just eat at you all the year?
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad you brought this up.
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  Speaker 3: So Paralta, you know, unfortunately, has been a disaster, right,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the Mets season has been a disaster the
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  Speaker 3: way Paralta's pitched. And he's such a good dude, like
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  Speaker 3: I'm surprised, and I think most people are that watched
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  Speaker 3: him pitch that he has not been able to figure
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  Speaker 3: things out and pitch the way he did in Milwaukee,
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  Speaker 3: even even you know, maybe a slight drop off would
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  Speaker 3: have been fine, but this has been.
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  Speaker 2: A huge drop off. So if you're the if you're
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  Speaker 2: in David stern shoes, first.
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  Speaker 3: Off, you're hopeful that there are teams that are interested
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  Speaker 3: in him.
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  Speaker 2: Now he hasn't. He's pitched so poorly.
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  Speaker 3: That is a big possibility, right, You got to know
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  Speaker 3: the player to realize that, hey, you know this guy
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  Speaker 3: with a minor tweaker or so we can get him,
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  Speaker 3: you know, out of this funk that he's been in
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  Speaker 3: and you know, get the era which is close to five,
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  Speaker 3: get more out of him than what he's been able
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  Speaker 3: to do with there with the Mets, Right, And I
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  Speaker 3: think sometimes it change of scenery helps a lot. But
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  Speaker 3: if I'm in David Sterns shoes, like I got to
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  Speaker 3: figure out who's the most interested. I don't get the
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  Speaker 3: sense that Milwaukee is all that interested. I think they
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  Speaker 3: would be interested, but I don't care. I just I
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  Speaker 3: want the best take on this. I but I also
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  Speaker 3: don't want to send them.
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  Speaker 2: Back to Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 3: So find me the team that's going to pay for
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  Speaker 3: pay full freight, or give me the you know, the
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  Speaker 3: best offer that doesn't have Milwaukee Brewers next to it.
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  Speaker 3: Because if the Brewers fix it, fix them when we couldn't,
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  Speaker 3: and we get you know, fifty cents on the dollar,
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  Speaker 3: it's not going to end well for David Sterens and
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  Speaker 3: it's not going to end well for the guys in
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  Speaker 3: the front office. So luckily they have three other teams
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  Speaker 3: that seem to be interested.
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  Speaker 2: San Diego, the Cubs.
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  Speaker 3: We hear them, to hear, the White Sox, maybe maybe
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  Speaker 3: another team or so that we haven't heard yet, and
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  Speaker 3: those are the likely destinations, not Milwaukee. I think Milwaukee
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: is looking in a different, different spot. I think they're
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: looking at either Schooble or Gosman, maybe even Robbie Ray,
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: one of those guys that would be starting, you know,
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: one of game one, two or three Peralta. You know,
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: unfortunately when he was there, he wasn't all that successful
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: in those particular roles. I don't think that they are
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: are willing to pay, you know, the price that the
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: Mets need to move to trade him.
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: There all right, Well, some good news out of Los Angeles,
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: the Angels. Is there actually listening to trades and they
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: actually made a trade?
• 15:44
  Speaker 5: Is it hard?
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: And kind of go into what that major shift of
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: listening to trades is for a GM when you call
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: a team and they say, now we're not listening because
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: that's the reports that we're hearing out of LA that
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: until John Mozeloc became the GM, they weren't really even
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: ever listening to trades.
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: Well, and part of that, you know, give mo credit
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: that you know, he hasn't been there that long, but
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: he does have a long track record of success in
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: Saint Louis, as we've seen him being able to a
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: big part of being able to make these deals is
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: your relationship with the owner and does the owner trust
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: you to make a trade?
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: Does he trust you know.
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: That that you're getting the most for them what you
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: know and he has to understand it, and that a
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: lot of that is the communication with your owner.
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: I wasn't that good at it, you know. I I
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: go back to my days.
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: And the Orioles, how difficult it was to trade Miguel
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: Tahata and with with you know, doing doing that was
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: going to be difficult on top of the fact that
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: I didn't get ahead of that and just kind of
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: give him the heads up, like, hey, we've got some
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: really good, significant offers.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: It shouldn't be a shock or you know, shouldn't.
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: Stun the owner when you're doing a deal that you've
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: got good value back.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: You should be having that constant communication.
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: And I don't think if prior GM perryman Azi and
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: had that relationship or had the let's say the gravetas
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: that John Mozaic does. So I think from most side
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: of things, give him credit. He was able to make,
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: you know, those two trades right out of the gate,
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: and I think there may be another one left.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: I don't know if it's going to be.
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: A ton of trades from the Angels, but but you know,
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: moving those two pieces I think was the precursor for
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: something else.
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: All right, Jim, give me one trade that's not but
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: we haven't talked about that. You think is going to
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: be a move that will help a team win a
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: championship And I'm not talking schoobl that's obvious, pretty obvious.
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: We've talked about Freddy Peralta, We've we've talked about some
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: other names. Give me give me the one trade do
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: you think will happen that will help a team win
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: a championship.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: I well, we didn't talk about Clay Holmes, and you know,
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: partly because he's been on the injury list and partly
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: because you know he we don't know what you're gonna
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: get coming off the injured list.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: But you know, you guys saw him too.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: Like the first nine starts that he threw this year
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: for the Mets, he is their best starter. Like he pitched,
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: He'll pitched Baralta. He I'll pitched McClain even though McLain's
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: stuff was better. Now, you know, I'll take McLain for
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: the rest of the season and I'll stay I'll take
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: Christian Scott for the rest of the season for that matter.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: But with Holmes, you know, I think if you're looking
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: at a team, uh, I don't know, if you look
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: at any of these teams that need starting pitching, I'll
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: take Milwaukee and put put him into the mix there,
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: you know, with with Misarowski and hopefully Harrison, if they
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: don't get Scoobale, that's pretty good pickup. The Braves would
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: I think need somebody like him too. He's not a
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: He's not a big strikeout guy as we know, you know,
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: look kind of a lower what seven and a half
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: or seven and almost eight strikeouts per nine, But this
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: guy will give you five or more innings. He was
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: he was actually pitching deeper into games, as we saw earlier.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: So I think he's a guy that as in let's say,
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: the game three starter or possibly a game two starter.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: I think he can help a team get to get
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: to the World Series.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: If if that's the case, or certainly you know, have
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: them compete for the World Series.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: Do great stuff, appreciate it, keep bringing it and see
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: what happens over the next two days.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: Yes, it's gonna get active tomorrow, man, this is ridiculous.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, or not all at midnight on like Saturday and Sunday,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: which our sport does so weirdly all of the time,
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: all the gms just after the kids go to bed
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: and they're just firing in their offices and everybody misses it.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: I can I can go all day, you know, you
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: know the game for sure?
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: All right, for sure? Do you know what's going to
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: happen that way too?
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: All right?
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: See you guys, it is Saturday night.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: Twelve million trades, at twelve o'clock