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Ken Rosenthal on Braves debate, Dodgers arm injuries, MiLB park takeover, MLB's Superheroes/Villains · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: Everybody involved should have known better. Kellenick should have run,
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Speaker 1: Sneaker should have benched him, and acun you should have
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Speaker 1: dealt with this privately rather than in public form.
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Speaker 2: All right, let's hit the inside Scoop with FT senior
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Speaker 2: insider Ken Rosenthal. A lot of great topics covered on
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Speaker 2: Fair Territory yesterday, by the way, that I encourage you
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Speaker 2: to check out.
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Speaker 3: Before you even start. Let's just ask the question that
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Speaker 3: America wants to know. Oh yeah, is it MLB or
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Speaker 3: the MLB?
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Speaker 1: This is not even a question MLB not the MLB.
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Speaker 1: Mag In fact, I will have this to share with you.
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Speaker 1: One of my three children, who should not be named,
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Speaker 1: called it the MLB once and there was some discipline administered.
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Speaker 3: Ken. I am calling child services on you right now.
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Speaker 3: Child Service.
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Speaker 1: I didn't say it was physical discipline.
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Speaker 3: I just know that it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.
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Speaker 3: That's that sounds like child services need to be called
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Speaker 3: on Ken.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, what are you gonna say?
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Speaker 2: And they're gonna say, wait, they said, what the MLB?
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Speaker 3: Oh now, so then why is it the NFL, the NBA,
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Speaker 3: and why is it not the MLB.
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Speaker 4: I'm with you, Ken, I think it's MLB.
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Speaker 1: I don't know the answer to that, Aja, I haven't
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Speaker 1: given it much thought, believe it or not.
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Speaker 4: I believe that.
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Speaker 2: All I can tell you, Ken is many of your
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Speaker 2: colleagues are really angry about this. I know that because
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Speaker 2: they're seeing it more frequently in the national stratosphere, other publications,
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Speaker 2: social media. It's just starting to kind of creep over.
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Speaker 2: And for so long people would be like, no, this
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Speaker 2: is not what we say, or you are new to
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Speaker 2: watching our league or being a fan of our league.
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Speaker 2: So I just wanted to make sure we did a PSX.
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Speaker 2: We haven't talked about it on this show for two years.
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Speaker 1: I'll just say one thing, and this might be a
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Speaker 1: guess as to why it's not the MLB as opposed
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Speaker 1: to the National Football League, NFL, NBA, NHL. Those acronyms
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Speaker 1: all end in the league, right, major League Baseball. It's
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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball. That makes it a little odd sounding
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Speaker 1: when you say the Major League Baseball, it sounds more
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Speaker 1: natural to say the National Football League. So maybe that's it.
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Speaker 1: And my colleagues do get upset about this from time
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Speaker 1: to time. I noticed it on X, even in conversation,
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Speaker 1: But we all have better things to worry about.
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Speaker 4: You finally agree with me.
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Speaker 3: Ken, That's exactly what I run this one together. A
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Speaker 3: good It doesn't make any sense to say the Major
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Speaker 3: League Baseball It's like, why do people say the Ohio
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Speaker 3: State University. No one cares you went to Ohio State.
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Speaker 3: Stop stop trying to make yourself cool think you are.
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Speaker 3: The U is just dumb, Like, I mean, who's whose
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Speaker 3: thing is like this? I mean, come on, let's me say.
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Speaker 4: It's not like that, not you.
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Speaker 3: It's more like a I don't know what you're doing
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Speaker 3: it wrong.
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Speaker 4: That was an eb exactly.
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Speaker 2: That's definitely not a you.
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Speaker 4: But and the you is not even relevant anymore. So
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Speaker 4: let's continue.
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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna I'm not going to dispigine.
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Speaker 1: Let's not get the Florida boy going here.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly.
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Speaker 3: All right, let's get to business. National Champs Ken Basketball School.
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Speaker 2: Now, Ken, you were just covering the Rangers and the
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Speaker 2: Dodgers this past weekend. I want to start with the Dodgers.
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Speaker 2: What I will call pitching injury epidemic I do think
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Speaker 2: still exists here. They spoke last year about how they
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Speaker 2: were going to spend the off season or part of
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Speaker 2: the off season, figuring out how they can do this better.
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Speaker 2: Do you feel like there are any changes within the organization,
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Speaker 2: Because we have the Blake Tryna news and there's still
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Speaker 2: plenty of guys that are hurt for them already.
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Speaker 1: It seems to me what they were talking about then
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Speaker 1: was more at the minor league level and trying to
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Speaker 1: get guys in a better place physically so they can
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Speaker 1: sustain themselves and stay healthy. I don't know that they
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Speaker 1: made changes at the major league level. All teams make
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Speaker 1: tweaks in the off season that I expect would have happened,
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Speaker 1: but I haven't asked specifically if they've changed things. And
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Speaker 1: clearly we need to remember here they're coming off a
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Speaker 1: deep run in the postseason. Whatever a team does this,
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Speaker 1: the Dodgers or anyone else, there is a toll to
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Speaker 1: pay the next season. Sometimes you'll see pictures not as effective.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes you'll see them get hurt. Blake tryin and was
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Speaker 1: used heavily in the postseason, right, so it's not exactly
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Speaker 1: a shock that he's down for a little bit. Glass
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Speaker 1: now is always hurt. When they acquired him, he was
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Speaker 1: a guy who had that reputation and little has changed
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Speaker 1: to adjust that reputation. So I don't know that it's
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Speaker 1: anything abnormal what's going on with them right now. It's
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Speaker 1: merely a continuation of what has happened in the past.
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Speaker 1: But with the difference being they went so deep in
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Speaker 1: the postseason, you have to expect a little bit of
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Speaker 1: these kinds of problems to occur.
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Speaker 3: Ken a little bit of a different topic than the Dodgers,
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Speaker 3: who you know, just seem to figure everything out.
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Speaker 4: The Braves. What happened with the Braves?
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Speaker 3: Has there been anything else from the Akunya Snicker? Have
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Speaker 3: they had a conversation that you know of? Has there
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Speaker 3: been any talk because I just thought it was crazy
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Speaker 3: that Acuna would say this, you know at all, but
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Speaker 3: especially on Twitter deleted you know whatever? But any has
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Speaker 3: there been any conversations about this from the Braves or
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Speaker 3: each other.
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Speaker 1: I don't know that they've talked to each other yet.
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Speaker 1: I imagine they will. And as I wrote yesterday, everybody
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Speaker 1: involved should have known better. Kellenick should have run, Sniker
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Speaker 1: should have benched him, and Acuna should have dealt with
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Speaker 1: this privately rather than in public form such as x
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Speaker 1: that said. As I wrote, also, Acuna had a point,
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Speaker 1: and I know that he and inciar Day and Azuna
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Speaker 1: had previously not run hard and that's what led to
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Speaker 1: their benchings. Where Kellenick has not been that kind of
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Speaker 1: guy that have not had that problem with him, it
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Speaker 1: still was a bad look not to bench him in
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Speaker 1: that situation. Keep in mind they hadn't had a two
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Speaker 1: game winning streak all year at that point, games tied,
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Speaker 1: he gets thrown out at second base. So from that perspective,
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Speaker 1: I thought Sniker missed an opportunity there to make an
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Speaker 1: example of a player who might not even be with
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Speaker 1: them once Acunya returns, and he did not take it,
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Speaker 1: And with that he left himself open to that kind
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Speaker 1: of question from Acunya, which we can all agree was
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Speaker 1: probably not the right thing to do publicly on Acunya's part,
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Speaker 1: but I understood where that was coming from.
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Speaker 5: I got a little bit roasted in the chat because
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Speaker 5: I said, should we loosen the social media during the
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Speaker 5: game ban in Major League Baseball? We want more connection
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Speaker 5: to players. Should Major League Baseball loosen that to some extent?
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Speaker 5: Or should it just be a cold blanket no?
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Speaker 1: Well, this relates more to jash Chisholm Junior's tweet the
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Speaker 1: other day about the umpire and honestly, Eric, in my opinion,
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Speaker 1: they should not loosen it. And the reason I say
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Speaker 1: that is a player's focus during a game should be
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Speaker 1: on the game. And hey, you've heard teams like the
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Speaker 1: Angels talk about banning phones in the clubhouse because it's
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Speaker 1: deteriorating or detracted. I should say from players focus during
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Speaker 1: a game, it's not the place to be tweeting. I
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Speaker 1: don't think and I can see where the Lee could
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Speaker 1: loosen it, But my goodness, I would imagine you want
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Speaker 1: your players more focused than looking at X one minute,
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Speaker 1: looking at Instagram another and then maybe looking up at
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Speaker 1: the field and see what's going on.
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Speaker 4: I don't know that that's a great look.
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Speaker 4: Let's go to Steinbrenner Field.
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Speaker 5: We saw that the fair polls came up a little short,
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Speaker 5: and that was something that nobody probably even really thought
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Speaker 5: that much about when they moved in. What else are
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Speaker 5: we missing that is going to come into play in
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Speaker 5: a negative way in these minor league parks Steinbrenner or
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Speaker 5: at Sutterfield.
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Speaker 1: The one thing that we haven't discussed much, but certainly
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Speaker 1: as a factor in a one deck stadium is wind.
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Speaker 1: There is greater wind perhaps in these states. Certainly the
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Speaker 1: greater potential for wind being a factor. We've seen that
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Speaker 1: at times at Steinbrunner Field, and it can come into
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Speaker 1: play later in the season, and certainly with both parks. Also,
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Speaker 1: speaking of atmospheric conditions, it's going to get warm in
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Speaker 1: the summer months in both places. So I'm anxiously waiting
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Speaker 1: to see how these things play out. It's really too
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Speaker 1: soon to form a judgment one way or the other.
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Speaker 1: We all know it's not an ideal circumstance. One of
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Speaker 1: these circumstances is self inflicted. That would be the Sacramento A's,
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Speaker 1: and the other is simply the result of natural disaster,
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Speaker 1: the hurricane that of course blew the roof off Tropicana Field.
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Speaker 1: So you can't compare them in that regard. And it's
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Speaker 1: unfortunate that this has happened at all that baseball has
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Speaker 1: to be playing in minor league parks. But again, we'll
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Speaker 1: just have to see how this all evolves over time.
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Speaker 1: And my greater concern really is for the A's because
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Speaker 1: the Rays are going to move back to try a
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Speaker 1: kind of field at some point certainly appears that way.
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Speaker 1: Who knows how long the age are going to be.
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Speaker 1: In Sutterfield, we hear three years, that's their goal. They
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Speaker 1: still haven't broken ground yet. In Vegas could be four years.
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Speaker 1: That is not a healthy thing for the sport. I
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Speaker 1: am sorry. It is not healthy to have a team
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Speaker 1: playing in a minor league park for even three years,
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Speaker 1: much less four.
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Speaker 3: Ken on this, on this rule. Why can't we get
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Speaker 3: why can't we get cameras at every major league park
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Speaker 3: right down the line that are just stationary cameras. I
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Speaker 3: know it wouldn't be that big of a cost.
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Speaker 4: You don't need anyone manning them.
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Speaker 3: Why can't we just have a camera on each line
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Speaker 3: that just sits there. I mean, you could put it
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Speaker 3: on the whatever you need to be. You put it
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Speaker 3: on the side, you know, one of the sides of
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Speaker 3: the facade of the stadium, whatever. It doesn't have to
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Speaker 3: be someone standing there holding it. Just put a camera
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Speaker 3: down the line. We should be able to figure that.
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Speaker 3: You could take the telestraighter and draw a straight line
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Speaker 3: up from the foul pole and say it was fair
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Speaker 3: or foul. I just don't understand this should be This
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Speaker 3: could be the easiest solution the Major League Baseball has
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Speaker 3: ever had. Didn't that sound stupid by the way.
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Speaker 1: Age, I hadn't thought of that, But sure that would
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Speaker 1: be a solution. It doesn't seem to be that kind
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Speaker 1: of cost lea solution. It's not going to cost you
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Speaker 1: that much money. As you said, I don't know why
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Speaker 1: they don't do that. I haven't asked why they don't
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Speaker 1: do that, but certainly in the future at those ballparks,
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Speaker 1: in particular with the shorter foul poles, that would be
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Speaker 1: one way to get around what's going on.
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Speaker 4: Now.
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Speaker 1: Let's point out too that the foul pole with Steinburner Field,
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Speaker 1: the two of them, they are within the boundaries of
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Speaker 1: what MLB wants, which is a thirty foot high foul pole.
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Speaker 1: That's the minimum, and they're thirty feet. But in a
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Speaker 1: larger stadium, stadium with three decks, you have a ninety
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Speaker 1: foot foul pole. And if there had been a ninety
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Speaker 1: foot foul pole at Steinberner Field the other day, I
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Speaker 1: believe Aaron Judge would have had a home run.
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Speaker 5: Do we feel like this has to be collectively bargained
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Speaker 5: or can it be collectively bargained that you know what,
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Speaker 5: we're not playing at. We're not playing at minor league
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Speaker 5: parks baring a natural disaster.
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Speaker 1: I would expect eric that in the next round of
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Speaker 1: collective bargaining negotiations, this is going to be a topic. Now,
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Speaker 1: keep in mind, the players Association agreed to what's going
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Speaker 1: on here, certainly in both situations, and you can say
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Speaker 1: in some ways they had no choice, and certainly accommodations
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Speaker 1: were made for players to ensure that the facilities were
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Speaker 1: as up to major league quality as humanly possible. But
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Speaker 1: I would expect, yes, that in the next CBA this
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Speaker 1: is something the union will want to look at because,
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Speaker 1: let's face it, it's not an ideal situation, and it's
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Speaker 1: not an ideal situation for many reasons. But let's look
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Speaker 1: at it solely from a player's perspective. Are you able
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Speaker 1: to achieve as a player, your full optimal ability playing
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Speaker 1: in one of these places where you don't have the
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Speaker 1: facilities and the different areas of improvement that you could
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Speaker 1: pursue in bigger parks, in major league parks and places
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Speaker 1: that have all kinds of resources available to players. That
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Speaker 1: would be a concern of mine.
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Speaker 2: As a union, Ken, I want to take us to
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Speaker 2: the Red Sox. I know you talked for a moment
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Speaker 2: about Tristan Cassis yesterday on Fair Territory, so people can
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Speaker 2: check that out. But just getting some questions here in
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Speaker 2: the chat about him and also about Yoshida and just
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Speaker 2: how you see their roster playing out over time. If
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Speaker 2: health doesn't make things change automatically.
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Speaker 1: It's a good question, obviously, and let's start by saying
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Speaker 1: there's never a problem when you have too many good players,
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Speaker 1: and that could be where the Red Sox are headed
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Speaker 1: with Roman Anthony Cumming or eventually Marcelo Mayer as well.
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Speaker 1: But it seems to me as far as the Casas
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Speaker 1: Yoshida question is concerned, at some point there is going
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Speaker 1: to need to be a decision and one of those
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Speaker 1: guys is probably not going to be on the roster now.
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Speaker 1: I wrote in the off season, and I had some
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Speaker 1: fun with this. Yesterday I wrote a column saying, picture
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Speaker 1: Alex Bregman at third base, and picture Tristan Cass is
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Speaker 1: going traded to the Mariners for one of their pitchers.
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Speaker 1: And I heard from a number of members of Red
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Speaker 1: Sox Nation telling me, well, I won't even say what
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Speaker 1: they said, but that's it. They signed Bragman, of course,
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Speaker 1: and they still have this question with Cassis at least
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Speaker 1: as long as Devers is a DH too, because keep
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Speaker 1: in mind he might want to get back to the
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Speaker 1: field at some point. So these are issues that might
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Speaker 1: resolve on their own, might require the team to resolve
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Speaker 1: them in some fashion. But yeah, they have a question
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Speaker 1: with all of these guys. There's too many of them
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Speaker 1: to fit on one roster. It's a good thing, but
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Speaker 1: ultimately it's going to lead to some kind of move
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Speaker 1: one way or the other.
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Speaker 5: Ken we are twenty plus games into the season. Can
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Speaker 5: you give us your villain for the twenty twenty five
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Speaker 5: season so far?
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Speaker 1: That would be John Fisher, and for all the reasons
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Speaker 1: we just stated, he is the oclon as owner. They
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Speaker 1: are playing in a minor league park. They're playing in
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Speaker 1: a minor league park because of the way things evolved
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Speaker 1: in Oakland. And you can blame people all you want,
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Speaker 1: and listen, there's plenty of blame, I'm sure to go
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Speaker 1: around on both sides, but this whole thing should never
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Speaker 1: have happened. There is not an excuse for a major
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Speaker 1: league team to be stuck repeat, stuck at a minor
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Speaker 1: league park for this length of time, and I don't
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Speaker 1: know why league allowed it to happen. They would blame
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Speaker 1: Oakland as they have in the past. That's fine, but
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Speaker 1: still this was a situation that to me should have
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Speaker 1: been avoided. So John Fisher would be the guy. He's
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Speaker 1: the guy that we named the dork of the week
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Speaker 1: after on fair Territory. So how am I gonna go
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Speaker 1: with anybody else?
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Speaker 3: All right? Well, Ken, you can't say me, You can't
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Speaker 3: say me. So who's your hero?
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Speaker 4: So far? Besides me?
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Speaker 3: We all know it's me, So besides me superhero.
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Speaker 1: Well, there's some great athletes in the game right now.
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Speaker 1: We all know that Bobby Wick Junior, Elie de la Cruz,
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Speaker 1: O'Neil Cruz right down the list. But the guy that
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Speaker 1: stands out to me, and he's having so far an
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Speaker 1: MVP season, is Fernando Tatist junior. And what he can
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Speaker 1: do on a baseball field is just so remarkable and
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Speaker 1: so cool to watch on a daily basis. We've seen
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Speaker 1: him now improve his plate discipline. He's one of the
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Speaker 1: great right fielders in the game. Didn't come up as
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Speaker 1: a right fielder. Learn that position offensively. Of course he's
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Speaker 1: a freak, so I would say right now, because of
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Speaker 1: what he has done so far for the Padres, who
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Speaker 1: have been one of the great stories of the early season,
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Speaker 1: I would go with him. Elie de la Cruz would
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Speaker 1: be a close second because of of course the things
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Speaker 1: he can do on a baseball field, but Tatis actually
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Speaker 1: kind of plays like a superhero out there.
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Speaker 2: Did you see that story or I don't know, or
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Speaker 2: quote about how this offseason Tatist was working with his
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Speaker 2: dad and he's like, you're not a complete hit or
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Speaker 2: something along those lines, because you don't have the right
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Speaker 2: approach to get on base more consistently.
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Speaker 1: I did see that buster only from ESPN reported that,
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Speaker 1: I guess in his reporting from the Sun the Night
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Speaker 1: Baseball broadcast he collected that anecdote, and it's a really
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Speaker 1: good one and it just speaks to a player of
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Speaker 1: his caliber still needing to improve, at least in his
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Speaker 1: father's estimation, and Tatis Junior evidently took it to the
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Speaker 1: heart and we've seen a dramatic improvement along those lines.
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Speaker 1: So good for him, man, And again just what he
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Speaker 1: is doing for that team, which has a lot of
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Speaker 1: injuries right now from Jackson Merrill to cronin Worth too.
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Speaker 1: Of course our eyes who just got hurt. It's pretty impressive.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Musk grows out for what the whole year new
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Speaker 2: darbish is out there missing a lot?
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Speaker 3: Kem.
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Speaker 4: I want to know.
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Speaker 3: You brought it up about a rise. Do you think
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Speaker 3: there'll be a day? And I don't want this to
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Speaker 3: say yes. I don't want yes to be your answer,
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Speaker 3: so don't say yes. Do you think we'll see a
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Speaker 3: time where it's like college where they do the two
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Speaker 3: bases to try because I don't think that would have
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Speaker 3: avoided either rowdy to les or the Luisa Rii situation.
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Speaker 3: But that's something they're going to more and more in college,
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Speaker 3: trying to lower high school and little leagues. Do you
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Speaker 3: think that's something that Major League Baseball would imploy and
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Speaker 3: implement at some point?
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Speaker 1: I don't see it aj And as frightening as that
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Speaker 1: injury was, and at times as we've seen things can
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Speaker 1: happen at first base in particular, I don't see that happening.
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Speaker 1: And you can just look at the frequency of these plays.
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Speaker 1: We see what maybe one or two or three a year.
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Speaker 1: I don't know that that's enough to warrant a rule change,
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Speaker 1: and you could say the buster posey play, Yes, that
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Speaker 1: was one that certainly warranted a rule change, and there
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Speaker 1: weren't that many collisions that resulted in those kinds of injuries.
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Speaker 1: But to me, that was a much more obvious choice.
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Speaker 1: So I don't know that we'll ever see what you're describing.
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Speaker 3: Now, you want it real quick, AJ, buster posey rule stupid,
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Speaker 3: I'll say it. No, not that. But do you want
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Speaker 3: the two base thing?
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Speaker 5: No?
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Speaker 3: U MLB players, no crafts wants it.
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Speaker 4: No, no, no. I don't want the.
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Speaker 3: Buster or posy rule. I don't want the chase outly rule.
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Speaker 3: Let's let them get some contact. We can touch each
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Speaker 3: other in this league. Okay, It's okay to run a
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Speaker 3: dude over every once in a while, doesn't it. J.
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Speaker 1: I love your nineteen fifties approach, But when you're talking
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Speaker 1: about salaries being where they are and player safety being
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Speaker 1: the issue that it is, I think both rules have
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Speaker 1: had a positive effect without detracting from the game.
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Speaker 3: I now have my two snowflakes of the week, Scott
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Speaker 3: and Ken, so we go.
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Speaker 1: That's fine.
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Speaker 3: AJ have to do a power ranking between Ken and
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Speaker 3: Scott on snowflake ability.
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Speaker 1: I prefer and bring all the name call you want.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't snowflake is a name call.
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Speaker 2: The name call, yeah, he's he's obsessed. It's like his
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Speaker 2: word of the week, Ken, So we're just letting him
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Speaker 2: ride it out.
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Speaker 1: I'm glad he has one.
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Speaker 3: I haven't seen snowflake in a long time.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right. It doesn't snow very often exactly.
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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, we're trying to, you know, limit the concussions.
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Speaker 2: I do understand that part. So not everyone's as big
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Speaker 2: as strong as AJ and Krats. So anyway, Ken, thank
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Speaker 2: you very much, appreciate it. We'll catch you later this week.
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Speaker 1: Thanks guys.
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Speaker 2: Fair Territory from yesterday, you can catch Ken on the Dodgers,
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Speaker 2: on Ronald Acuna Junior, and many other topics. He gets
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Speaker 2: into the Tristan Cossus conversation a little bit too with
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Speaker 2: a fan question, So go check it out wherever you
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Speaker 2: get your shows.