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• 0:09
  Speaker 1: Better than box scores. Let's preview Game three of the ALCS.
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: Well Blue Jays fans, if you're concerned about your team
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: in this series, let us introduce you to George Kirby,
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: who is very nasty, very nasty.
• 0:27
  Speaker 2: Listen, Shane Bieber is not too bad either. No, I
• 0:30
  Speaker 2: gotta be If there's a guy that you needed right now,
• 0:35
  Speaker 2: that that's probably your guy, George Kirby at home. Oh god, Cratzy,
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  Speaker 2: this guy has been dominant. He's a name that we've
• 0:44
  Speaker 2: always talked about over the last some odd years. He
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  Speaker 2: can pitch and he loves this moment. He loves it,
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  Speaker 2: so I think he's ready to rock. Oh boy, this
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  Speaker 2: could be some trouble. And you see the Mariners. Guess
• 0:56
  Speaker 2: what they're hitting now, boys, watch out for this squad
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  Speaker 2: there clicking on all cylinders. Polanco. I mean Jesus, this
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  Speaker 2: guy has been incredible and he's been doing it for
• 1:06
  Speaker 2: a long time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and he throws a ton of strikes, sometimes to
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  Speaker 1: his detriment. Either there's so many strikes. He's so efficient,
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  Speaker 1: crats that he does give up a decent amount of
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  Speaker 1: homers because he's all over the zone. So he can
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  Speaker 1: be susceptible at times. He has big home roads blitz.
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  Speaker 1: That's probably why the Mariners are lining him up in Seattle.
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  Speaker 1: But how did the Blue Jays climb back into this series.
• 1:30
  Speaker 3: By not trying to get those homers? Like he's going
• 1:33
  Speaker 3: to be in the zone, So the Jays don't have
• 1:35
  Speaker 3: to like control the zone, but they need to play
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  Speaker 3: their game. Don't go to Seattle and go, gee, let's
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  Speaker 3: see if the ball is traveling. It's not. It's not,
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  Speaker 3: And that's okay because the Jays don't need to live
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  Speaker 3: and breathe on on the on the home run like,
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  Speaker 3: they don't have to, like, you got your homers, it's okay.
• 1:58
  Speaker 3: But to me, they got they got to be able
• 2:00
  Speaker 3: to win a three to two ball game down in Seattle.
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  Speaker 1: That's possible.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it definitely is. But excuse me. They got to
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  Speaker 2: keep them the runs down. So that's the other thing.
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  Speaker 1: So on their side, Yeah, the bullpen's really the big
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  Speaker 1: difference right now for me. I mean, I was on
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  Speaker 1: the Seattle radio show today and we were kind of
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  Speaker 1: sizing up both squads, and obviously the offense has shown
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  Speaker 1: up for the Mariners so far, but the Blue Jays
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  Speaker 1: have a solid offense. The thing for me, Kratz is
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  Speaker 1: the difference in depth for the Mariners with their bullpen.
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  Speaker 1: Their circle of trust is large right now. When Bizardo
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  Speaker 1: can give you two scoreless innings every other game right now,
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  Speaker 1: and obviously Brash and Mino is at the back end
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  Speaker 1: is great, and it's better than what the Blue Jays have.
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  Speaker 1: There's a big difference there. They've got a money bullpen
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  Speaker 1: to go along with three, if not four, solid starters.
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  Speaker 1: If Brian wu comes back, we're actually five, I should say, really, right,
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  Speaker 1: because you've got Bryce Miller and he looks better than
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: he did early on in the season too, So you've
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  Speaker 1: got five starters. One of them could move to the
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  Speaker 1: bullpen and make it even more dangerous.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the pitching advantage is one hundred percent in the
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  Speaker 3: Mariners favor, and so you want to go to a
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  Speaker 3: park that the pitching advantage kind of becomes neutral. Not
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  Speaker 3: the case in Seattle. But how this has gone like
• 3:24
  Speaker 3: to me, I didn't see them losing two at home
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  Speaker 3: like the Jays were playing hot. They were, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 3: they were dominating the Yankees for the most part, and
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  Speaker 3: the Mariners came in and said, yeah, I get it.
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  Speaker 3: We looked bad against a team who couldn't score any
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  Speaker 3: runs and the Tigers, but we beat Trek's Google twice,
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  Speaker 3: so we have that going on for us. I just
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  Speaker 3: felt like coming into the series has not played out
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  Speaker 3: the way that is going right now, and to me,
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  Speaker 3: that should be scary for even the two National League teams.
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  Speaker 3: Whoever wins it that goes up against if it's the Mariners,
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  Speaker 3: the Mariners are just getting better as the postseason goes on.
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  Speaker 3: They're getting more experience because a lot of these guys
• 4:06
  Speaker 3: don't have a ton of postseason experience. And don't ever
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  Speaker 3: bet against the year of Cal. Okay, that's it. If
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  Speaker 3: you ever need an answer why the Mariners will win,
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  Speaker 3: don't bet against the year of Cal.
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  Speaker 1: That is true. Do you know who else stands out
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  Speaker 1: besides Cal? And of course Polanco has been very clutch
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  Speaker 1: for them. I mean, Julio Rodriguez has come up in
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  Speaker 1: some big moments. Sometimes you got to look away from
• 4:31
  Speaker 1: the batting average and ops and a short sample during
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  Speaker 1: the postseason and look at the timeliness. Nobody's got more
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  Speaker 1: timeliness than Polanco. But Julio already in a couple rounds,
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  Speaker 1: has had huge, huge clutch knocks for them, and I
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  Speaker 1: think that he's a different ballplayer this year in terms
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  Speaker 1: of where we'd see him press. I know it often
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  Speaker 1: came at the beginning of a season. It felt like
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  Speaker 1: it was Julio and the Mariners. Now it's Cal and
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  Speaker 1: the Mariners, and it's a one through nine that's legit.
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  Speaker 1: So there were times where you'd look at his abs
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  Speaker 1: and you're just like, what, he doesn't swing at that,
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  Speaker 1: But he does right now for a month or two,
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  Speaker 1: and then he gets himself into a rut and then
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  Speaker 1: his numbers look bad and things can tumble. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think we have that version of Julio anymore. Even listen
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  Speaker 1: to a TV broadcast right like a postseason game. You know,
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  Speaker 1: Prazinski and Wuno and Adam, I mean, were just on
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  Speaker 1: the last round and now you've got Smoltz and Joe Davis.
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  Speaker 1: They're not spending a large chunk of the broadcast talking
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  Speaker 1: about Julio. He's just one of the parts of this
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  Speaker 1: great team. In the past, it was like, well, Julio's
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  Speaker 1: got to step up, he's gotta have a huge game,
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  Speaker 1: and now he doesn't. But when he does, it's great
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  Speaker 1: for them. Don't you feel like this is by far
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  Speaker 1: the best lineup he's ever been a part of.
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  Speaker 2: I would agree with you on that front, But I
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  Speaker 2: also think clutch times ask for clutch players, and this
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  Speaker 2: is playoff time. This is a playoff guy that finally
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  Speaker 2: gets in a little bit and all of a sudden,
• 5:53
  Speaker 2: here he goes he's taking off these phenomenal baseball player
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  Speaker 2: big double he had in the bottom of the eighth
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  Speaker 2: to propel them to get a victory, and then all
• 6:02
  Speaker 2: of a sudden, the three run homer. Like the guy's
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  Speaker 2: clicking on all cylinders and he's not doing it like
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  Speaker 2: Cockerly or Fancily if that's even a fancy Jesus fancily
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  Speaker 2: fancy at all. Like he's just going about his business
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  Speaker 2: and being a ballplayer and not worrying about all the
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  Speaker 2: jazz and glitz and everything else. Just go out and play.
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  Speaker 2: And it's been very, very nice to lot. I'm making
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  Speaker 2: up words here as I go on.
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  Speaker 1: Cratch you have to use Cockley and Fancily. Never you're
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  Speaker 1: about to say.
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  Speaker 4: Fancily, Okay, Josh Naylor is definitely running the bases, and
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  Speaker 4: Fancily is when there's up in each area I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Julio Rodriguez may not be that poster child that the
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  Speaker 3: Mariners organization has tabbed him to be. I remember, he's
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  Speaker 3: also twenty four. Like, this guy's a you know, he's
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  Speaker 3: somewhere between superstar and All star status. Like he's a
• 7:04
  Speaker 3: great piece to the organization. But just as we talked
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  Speaker 3: about the last three years man this team in the playoffs,
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  Speaker 3: they've had the pitching, why can't we add to the offense.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think there's anybody that's benefited more from Auhinio
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  Speaker 3: Suarez and Josh Naylor coming into this lineup than Julio Rodriguez. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: Cal has taken a lot of the weight off of
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  Speaker 3: Julio's shoulders, and it's not something I think that weighs
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  Speaker 3: on him every day. I just think it's something that
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  Speaker 3: teams can't just go, ah, Julio swing at anything, woop woop,
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  Speaker 3: just throwing balls way out of the zone and Julio
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  Speaker 3: strikes out. Well, why did Julio strike out because he
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  Speaker 3: had to get the job done. Now he doesn't need
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  Speaker 3: to because Josh Naylor is going to have a ten
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  Speaker 3: pitch at that he's gonna steal second base when the
• 7:53
  Speaker 3: team's not looking any slow. Auhenio Suarez has always has
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  Speaker 3: a chance to hit a homer. Guy had forty nine
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  Speaker 3: bingers this year. So they added this is around and
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  Speaker 3: already really really good player in jo it enables him
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  Speaker 3: to shine.
• 8:06
  Speaker 1: Mm hmmm, you want cockle. It is of all, we
• 8:10
  Speaker 1: got the definition. It's apparently a real word.
• 8:12
  Speaker 2: It is a real word. Kaka is an adverb. And
• 8:14
  Speaker 2: I was actually right by saying it. The act in
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  Speaker 2: an overly bold, arrogant or self confident way. So he's
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  Speaker 2: not acting cokally exactly. I was spot on with Rodriguez's term.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the Mariners offense boom, thank you. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: education with Todd father.
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  Speaker 2: I know, I know I've gotten some I can't believe.
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  Speaker 2: I was okay about fancily, I said, fantally, you.
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  Speaker 1: Can look up while I just mentioned this part about Julio.
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  Speaker 1: So I know that the Blue Jays tied the game up,
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  Speaker 1: and then obviously the Mariners took off again.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: This was a three to three game. Mariner scored seven
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  Speaker 1: unanswered runs to end up winning this. But for me,
• 8:55
  Speaker 1: of course, he set the tone. It's a scoreless game
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  Speaker 1: where the first inning Trey is savage is coming off
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  Speaker 1: a ridiculously dominant performance against the Yankees. Five and a
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  Speaker 1: third hit list, eleven strikeouts, two base runners. He looked
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  Speaker 1: like he should have been, as Kratz would say, sometimes
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  Speaker 1: promoted to another level because this level of hitters could
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  Speaker 1: not handle him. Julio's like, cool, splitter hanger, there's one.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna smash it. Obviously he did make it three
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  Speaker 1: nothing stayed back, was able to pull it fair, and
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  Speaker 1: I think that really set the tone where they're like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: right now, this is the nastiest that they have to offer,
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  Speaker 1: and we're still beating it. And the confidence factor was there,
• 9:33
  Speaker 1: and they were excited to crack open the bullpen because
• 9:36
  Speaker 1: that's the weak spot for this team. So super I
• 9:38
  Speaker 1: don't want to say underrated part of that game one,
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  Speaker 1: but it was so far back in the beginning that
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  Speaker 1: I just want to make sure it gets a lot
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  Speaker 1: of left because it was huge for Julio. Did we
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  Speaker 1: find out if fancy.
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  Speaker 2: An elaborate show were decorative way often with excessive ornamentation
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  Speaker 2: or unnecessary complexity.
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  Speaker 1: Mic drop, mic drop, I am smart. Yeah. If you
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: have a spelling bee coming up, Todd Father.
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  Speaker 2: You can picture you because it's the words that I've
• 10:08
  Speaker 2: never really used.
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  Speaker 1: I thought that you were thinking fancy and hockey and
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: you just put an illy.
• 10:14
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• 10:17
  Speaker 2: It's like putting ketchup on anything. It'll taste good.
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: How you don't you can put an illy on anything.
• 10:24
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  Speaker 2: Were you leading into that dog Eddings? That's while you
• 11:40
  Speaker 2: brought up umpires and San Diego? Maybe maybe Hey.
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: If you were catching us on YouTube during the break,
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: I was leading you into this one. Doug Eddings missed
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: twenty four calls in ALCS Game two. Did it matter? No,
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: the matners smacked the Blue Jays. But or some people
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: are going to go against me now and say one
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: pitch could change everything, that's fair. Sure, this was the
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: worst called playoff game since October seventh, twenty twenty two,
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: a game also called by pop Quiz who called it
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: Douglas Ettings. So here's my thing. He had a bad game. Okay,
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: the last time we saw a game this bad was
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: him unless he is much better right in the regular season,
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: which I don't think he is Why is he calling
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: playoff games behind the plate? Even when we get abs okay,
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: ABS challenge system is not going to fix every call.
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: They're not going to fix twenty four misses. You can't
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: challenge all of those calls. And I get it. There
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: are some that are on the border, but there are
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: plenty that are not. What are we doing?
• 12:45
  Speaker 3: Why is he calling this?
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: I don't get it. Crats, these are big, big misses,
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: and they were timely misses too, for both sides. Why
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: is he calling pitches? Like I get it? We have
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: a process in placement. We got to switch the process.
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: You need the best guys behind the plate call in
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: balls and strikes during the game's biggest moments. You can't
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: do it for every single regular season game. You gotta rotate.
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: You don't have to rotate as much in the playoffs.
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: Tell me I'm wrong. Tell me why everybody gets a turn?
• 13:11
  Speaker 1: Why is this everybody to get a medal for umpiring
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: behind the plate in the postseason? It's funny. What's the
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: money part?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the contracts, the union contract that they signed. The
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  Speaker 3: umpire's union contract stipulates that it is a rotating tenure
• 13:29
  Speaker 3: based but also a little bit towards the World Series
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  Speaker 3: a little bit merit based too. It should be all
• 13:37
  Speaker 3: merit based, because there's no like the A's don't get
• 13:42
  Speaker 3: in because they have neat uniforms this year, or because
• 13:45
  Speaker 3: it's been a few years since they've gotten in. They
• 13:47
  Speaker 3: don't get into the playoffs and like, oh, just get
• 13:49
  Speaker 3: to play a meaningless first round game. You know they
• 13:52
  Speaker 3: probably lose anyway, It's all merit based. This is the
• 13:55
  Speaker 3: time of the season where it's all merit based. Even
• 13:57
  Speaker 3: if you don't think the regular season is merit based,
• 14:00
  Speaker 3: disagree with you. Because the best players stay in the
• 14:03
  Speaker 3: big leagues, the worst players get sent down to Triple A.
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  Speaker 3: It should not be different in for umpires. It should
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  Speaker 3: not be different in the playoffs. It is merit based.
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  Speaker 3: This team played well enough to go and play in
• 14:18
  Speaker 3: the playoffs. They beat the next team. Now that means
• 14:21
  Speaker 3: they played better, so they moved on. You called a
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: great game, You move on. You do this twice. If
• 14:27
  Speaker 3: you have the two worst games behind the dish. Guess what, Doug,
• 14:31
  Speaker 3: you get to still be in the series. But you're
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: gonna be in left, you're gonna be in right. We
• 14:37
  Speaker 3: might even keep you at third base. It's totally fine.
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: I like Doug. He's a little gruff, he's a little
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: you know, he's not quite as talkative as I would like.
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  Speaker 3: But you're just not going to get behind the dish.
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  Speaker 1: That's my point. Behind the dish is sacred, especially during
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  Speaker 1: these moments. But wait, there's more. It could get worse
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: for those of you who have a dog in the fight,
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: in the alcs or just want to see balls and
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: strikes called properly. Eddings is ranked thirtieth out of ninety
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  Speaker 1: two umps incorrect call percentage this season. Next up will
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: be Ben May in Game three. He ranks twenty first. Okay,
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: he's almost a top twenty ump. Game four, Alfonso Marquez
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  Speaker 1: ranks eighty five out of ninety two MPs. Game five
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: Marvin Hudson ranks eighty out of ninety two MPs. What
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: the hell are we doing?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, don't know, don't know what I think.
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: I need to talk to somebody. Somebody has to answer
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: for this though. You are out of touch with reality
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: because there are a bunch of people watching the game
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: on its biggest stage and laughing or complaining and saying
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: why is this managed this way? If you come out
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: and say Hey, listen, all the umps would have been
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: on strike forever if we didn't play it out exactly
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: this way. At least we got an explanation.
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  Speaker 2: There's not I think part of it is younger guys too.
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: They're not letting him get a chance. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: what their iota is, what their messages to these guys,
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  Speaker 2: so I don't know. I don't know. They've got to
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: get better.
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: It's very frustrating to it.
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: I know what the message is. You hang around long enough,
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: your salary is going to continue to go up. You
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: don't make a stink, your salary is going to continue
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: to go up. And if you're really in there long enough,
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: we'll give you a couple of playoff appearances, which there
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: is a financial bonus for each round. It it's a scale,
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: it's a tiered scale that's going up.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: Watching last night's game made me think two challenges for
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: abs challenge, even though you keep them, will not be enough.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: We need three, at least your postseason games. We need three.
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  Speaker 1: It's too important, and there are too many misses that
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: are blatant misses. Game two of the ALCS was that example.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: Gary Phillips covers the Yankee says, there's a lot of
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: talk about Tucker Bellinger and who the Yankee will go after.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they probably are going to go after both
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: and end up with one would be my guess. But
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: who do you think they should pursue in the offseason.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: I like Cody Bellinger, man. I thought Cody Bellinger was
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: an absolute beast. I thought he did well. He made
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: some really good plays. He's a great defender, and he's
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: got instincts too as well. I thought he'd fit in
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: well when he first came in. You know that happy,
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: go lucky charm that you know, laid back charm. You
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: didn't know how it was going to be in New York.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: And I thought he did exceptional, So I mean that
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: would I'm not saying Kyle Tucker is a bad ballplayer,
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: but I feel like Bellinger is one of those carefree
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: guys that's not going to worry about the big, big lights,
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: you know in New York, and I thought I thought
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: he did exceptionally.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: Well, it'll be cheaper. It'll be cheaper for Belly, and
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: you don't need Judge back in center field. Judge needs
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: to staying right. I don't know that Tucker's giving you
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: all those all you know, the innings that you want
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: in center, or that Jason Domingez is going to play center,
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: or how long is Tran Grisham? You know, to me,
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: I think Bellinger gives you a lot of flexibility, especially
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: since you know you don't you know, I don't think
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: you play another season with Judge in centerfield. I think
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: we've we did we did it once, let's not do
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: it again.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Aaron Judge should not be in.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: Centerfield, but Tucker. But Tucker's not center. You're right, Yeah,
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: that's what he said.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: That's what he said.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: That's what he said.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: That's what he said.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: What do you think would be the best type of
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: manager for the Potters to hire here?
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: Well, one of the first things if I'm a J. Prilla,
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: one thing I'm going to do is I'm going to
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: consult a little bit with Manny Machado. I'm going to
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: consult with Tatis. Maybe those are the two premium guys
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: as your positional players. You're gonna need to get a
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: sense of what's needed at this particular time to allow
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: these guys to continue to go out and be who
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: they are. You know, I know, Manny's probably is in
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: the midst of getting to the back end of his
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: career more so than the front end. And so it's
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: gonna be important to have that and understand, you know
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: that those relationships amongst those type of players. When you
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: bring a guy in, as you stated before, the Tingler
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: situation and I think Green.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Situation, that's just not gonna work.
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: They're just gonna they're gonna blow that over.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: They're gonna respect it for a little bit because it's
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: the head, but they're gonna blow it over because they
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: think most of the time you're blowing you're.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: Trying to.
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: Force your action upon us, establish yourself opposed to a
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: guy that can walk in is like, okay, we're gonna
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: be all right, man, We're gonna.
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: Be all right.
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: Like, you know, like, okay, let's see how this goes.
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: You know, a guy who has experienced and who's been
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: around the game for a long time, who has experienced
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: many different aspects.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Hey, that's Kyle Blazer and Mike Cameron on Friar Territory,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: part of the FT Network, covering the breaking news on
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: the manager front this week that Mike Schultz is stepping down,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: retiring from his spot managing The Friars How Youth Fell
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: also part of that show on select episodes as well.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Were you surprised when you heard that news after two
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: successful regular seasons and decent postseasons? I mean not this year,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: I guess in the wild card.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: But yeah, that it always brings you a question. I
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: always think whenever something happens, there's something else going on,
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: and not necessarily true all the time, but there could
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: be a little problem. There could be an issue, or
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: there could be maybe I'm looking too far into it.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Maybe it's just my time is now. I don't want
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: to be around anymore. So yeah, it was strange. It
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: came out rather quickly, and you know, I think they're
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: trying to put this to bed and move on. So
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: I do like that they're going to consult with some
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: of the players. I think that's fantastic, but ultimately they
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: got to make their decision.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: Is that normal? Do teams talk to players when they're
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: figuring out their manager? I feel like some front officers
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: are like, no, screw that, we're not asking them.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: If I remember, I think Joey Vado talked to some guys,
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: some brass maybe Brandon Phillips, But no matter what, they
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: really say they're going to make the decision on their own,
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: but I feel like they just want to maybe a
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: little reassurance and hear what the players have to think.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: I think you should because they're the one that you
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: know has to be around them most of the time.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: But still it's a business decision at the end of
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: the day. I don't know.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: The manager has to work directly with the general manager.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: To me, you gotta be as a general manager, you
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: got to figure out what kind of player personnel you have.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: Can't have Manny going in there going yeah, you know
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: who I really love Flarity, Ryan o'flairity, Ryano Flaerty, that.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Just Flarity, Ryan Flerity, Erico Flerity.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he was my buddy when we were with the Orioles.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: Like now, all of a sudden, does Flarity have enough
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: enough cashish? Does he have enough like up to be like, hey, Manny,
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: I need you to do this or that, and'd be
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: like whatever, bro, Like I used to play with you.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: Like there's there's there's a fine line in there. I'm
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: not saying you don't ask the players. I'm saying, as
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: a general manager, whoever you're picking, this is gonna be
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: a J. Peler's last manager. You can't keep going through managers,
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: keep your job no matter how well you do, and
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: not and not win the ultimate prize when this much
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: money is put out there. So ultimately you you got
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: to own this. As a J prelers, you got to
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: own who he picks.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: I actually think he could have more. I think he's
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: so highly regarded within their circle, and there's still like
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: a little bit of ownership strife with the potential lawsuit
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: and all that. So they're just letting Peler do his thing,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: and I mean, you could have a situation like this
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: pop up again. I mean, Schiltz was a shocker. He
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: thought he was going to be their manager for five
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: to seven years.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: No, I hope, I hope they have. I hope they
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: take their time with this one, just because this is fresh.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: We just had Kevin Ace on like he's still on
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: our screen. It was so fresh, like, so this is
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: fresh news, and so I hope they take their time
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: and not say, oh, we got to take the best
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: available guy, because I think there's somebody out there that's
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: going to fit into that mold that they want, that
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: has experience, has that ability to kind of roll with
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: the punches, and I know a couple guys that are
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: interviewing right now, and they would be tremendous, tremendous candidates,
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: and it's not dudes with zero experience.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: And we're going to talk a lot about all the
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: manager openings and fillings, I mean, as we get the news,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: but then hopefully there's still some remaining after the postseason
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: that we can cover too, So actually a lot of
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: those might get filled during that break between the CS
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: and the World Series.