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Tarik Skubal elbow surgery news, Murakami’s White Sox, Yankees option Anthony Volpe, RIP John Sterling · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: It's up tea good Monday to you. What's up, Kratz
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  Speaker 1: Przinski Ron. We don't love to start this way, but
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  Speaker 1: I think we should start this way to honor a
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  Speaker 1: legend in our sport, in the media world.
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  Speaker 2: So let's do that. AJ.
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  Speaker 1: John Sterling passed away. We got the news this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Eighty seven years old. Just a fixture in our sport
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  Speaker 1: for a long time. And to me, it didn't just
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  Speaker 1: have to do with him calling Yankee games for such
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  Speaker 1: a long period of time.
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  Speaker 2: AJ.
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  Speaker 1: If he called games for any team, you would have
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  Speaker 1: known who he was. That's how unique and special he was.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he was. He was great.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, obviously his impact is not only in the Yankees,
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  Speaker 4: but people say, oh, I know, duh.
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  Speaker 5: Yankees whatever, win all the time and that whole deal.
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  Speaker 4: So uh, you know, David Ortiz on Fox all the
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  Speaker 4: time when they lose, says no Yankees lose. And the
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  Speaker 4: nicknames he had and all the things that he did,
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  Speaker 4: and him and Susan Waldman were.
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  Speaker 5: A special, special pair.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, this is this is sad news in the
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  Speaker 4: world of baseball, especially in the Yankee world. But yeah,
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  Speaker 4: rip John, We'll miss you, and we'll definitely miss hearing
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  Speaker 4: your voice. It's like when Bob Shepard passed away in
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  Speaker 4: Yankee Stadium. He just wasn't the same.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely, I still have the message, and I'll never
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  Speaker 3: I'll never delete the voicemail that John Sterling left me
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  Speaker 3: because it encapsulates whether you liked him or you didn't
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  Speaker 3: like him on the radio, whether you were a Yankee
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  Speaker 3: fan or you weren't a Yankee fan. But I love
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  Speaker 3: the fact that his voice when he's just talking to
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  Speaker 3: you and leaving a message on your phone is the
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  Speaker 3: exact same as when he's calling the Yankees game, when
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  Speaker 3: he's giving the descriptions, when he's reading all the reads
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  Speaker 3: that the Yankees him and Susan Waldman had to read
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  Speaker 3: for all the games. And then obviously you know the
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  Speaker 3: home run calls, like that stuff is. It's iconic because
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  Speaker 3: if you were a Yankee and you hit a homer,
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  Speaker 3: you'll remember what John Sterling's call was for you.
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  Speaker 1: Oh. It was such a debate and a topic of
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  Speaker 1: conversation when a player would get called up, fans would
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  Speaker 1: try and come up with what he was going to
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  Speaker 1: say for that first home run.
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  Speaker 2: So we have the call.
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  Speaker 1: I think Kratz from Sterling, Is that true? Yes, we
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  Speaker 1: do have it, so let's play it.
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  Speaker 3: I have a few regrets in my playing days. One
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  Speaker 3: is I never hit a triple. But the other one
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  Speaker 3: is I never hit a home run for the Yankees.
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  Speaker 3: I played there in seventeen, got two at bats, and
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  Speaker 3: then twenty twenty and I never got a Kratz home
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  Speaker 3: run call from John Sterling. And everybody said, well, you
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  Speaker 3: know he planned it. If you're on the team, he
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  Speaker 3: planned it. So I have to know what would my
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  Speaker 3: home run call have been.
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  Speaker 6: I really don't know, but I would have done it.
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  Speaker 6: I would have done something on Crats.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 6: I'm from Milwaukee and I.
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  Speaker 3: Ought to know.
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  Speaker 6: It's Crats, Crats, Cratz, scrats wherever you go. Obviously the
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  Speaker 6: beer was blatch. But that's just a good But I mean,
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  Speaker 6: I haven't worked on it, you know, let me work
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  Speaker 6: on it, please. And then at a home run, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: of course crats.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe he was like, eh, I don't really have.
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  Speaker 5: I gotta worry about Crat sitting a homer.
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  Speaker 2: So that's good. That was fun. I remember that, and
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  Speaker 2: Aj he was the showman to me.
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  Speaker 1: That's what stands out too, is we're giving this guy
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  Speaker 1: a pop quiz after he's retired from calling games, and
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  Speaker 1: he's turning it into a song and dance and a unique.
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  Speaker 2: Call out for crats in a matter of seconds. That's good, improv.
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  Speaker 4: No, he was great again. Every time he talked to him,
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  Speaker 4: he was happy. He always put a big smile on
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  Speaker 4: your face when you saw him. Every time I'd see him,
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  Speaker 4: you know, a couple of times a year, he'd come
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  Speaker 4: up and speak and it was.
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  Speaker 5: Just he was just a special human being man. And
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  Speaker 5: he will be missed.
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  Speaker 4: I mean he's already been missed around the Yankees games
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  Speaker 4: as we all know, not calling them all.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, he was.
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  Speaker 3: He was special.
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  Speaker 4: And it's things like this people don't understand about baseball.
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  Speaker 4: When you all always listen to either the play by
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  Speaker 4: play guy of your home team on TV or your radio,
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  Speaker 4: which a lot of people like to listen to the radio,
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  Speaker 4: you kind of grow up with them and they're there
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  Speaker 4: your whole life, and you get used to their cadence
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  Speaker 4: and how they call games and how they say things
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  Speaker 4: and how they do things. And I think that's one
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  Speaker 4: of the reasons why so many national guys when we
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  Speaker 4: go in to do a game, people like, oh, I
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  Speaker 4: hate this guy.
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  Speaker 5: Oh you know, he's not this guy. He's not that guy.
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  Speaker 5: It's because they're used.
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  Speaker 4: You become used to of one hundred and sixty two
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  Speaker 4: all summer, summer after summer after summer. You get the
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  Speaker 4: same voice in your ear all the time, whether it's
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  Speaker 4: radio or television. And then you get to the playoffs,
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  Speaker 4: which are the most important games, and you have different
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  Speaker 4: people talking. So it was special to get to know
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  Speaker 4: John and get to be around him a little bit
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  Speaker 4: that I was, and again he'll be missed.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a memory for me going around the car
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  Speaker 1: when you're a kid and listening to baseball games.
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  Speaker 2: And I lived in the New York area.
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  Speaker 1: I was in New Jersey, close to the city, and
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  Speaker 1: I would listen to menton Yankees games, so I heard
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  Speaker 1: a lot of John Sterling, and it actually was part
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  Speaker 1: of making me obsessed with audio for media and for baseball.
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  Speaker 1: And eventually now here we are doing a show that's
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  Speaker 1: also a podcast. So one more thing, a note from
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  Speaker 1: Jason Stark. We'll play one more clip and then we'll
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  Speaker 1: get rolling with some news. So Stark wrote this morning
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  Speaker 1: that from nineteen eighty nine, opening day when Sterling started
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  Speaker 1: till July third, twenty nineteen, he called every Yankee game
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  Speaker 1: that was his streak, and that was twenty seven hundred
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  Speaker 1: and sixty three regular season Yankee wins that he called
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  Speaker 1: using that iconic call. So one more clip with our
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  Speaker 1: run in with John Sterling, because we had a couple
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  Speaker 1: and it was great. Here is John a couple of
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  Speaker 1: years ago at the BBWAA Awards that we covered.
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  Speaker 7: This award that I don't deserve is a long and
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  Speaker 7: meritorious award from my lifetime contributions to baseball. Well actually
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  Speaker 7: actually be giving baseball the award. When I was a
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  Speaker 7: kid at seven years old, I.
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  Speaker 3: Knew what I was gonna do. I was going on
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  Speaker 3: the air.
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  Speaker 8: I never dreamed I would get the Yankee job, and
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  Speaker 8: I had a pretty good career going when in nineteen
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  Speaker 8: eighty nine, out of the blue, I got the Yankee
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  Speaker 8: job by four the luckiest thing that ever happened to me.
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  Speaker 8: And here it is thirty six years later, twenty years
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  Speaker 8: with Susan Waldman, a woman who I obviously love and admire.
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  Speaker 8: Here's another day, February first, nineteen sixty were any of
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  Speaker 8: you born then? As my first day on the air,
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  Speaker 8: and when February first comes up in a few days,
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  Speaker 8: it'll be sixty five years on the air doing something
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  Speaker 8: I've wanted to do all my life.
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  Speaker 3: How lucky of mine.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you Baseball for the award, Thank you everyone for
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  Speaker 7: being here.
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  Speaker 3: God bless you all.
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  Speaker 2: Wow that was special.
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  Speaker 1: What a full life and what a baseball lifer guy
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  Speaker 1: who just loved the game and would show up every day,
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  Speaker 1: not complaining in a great mood, maybe complaining on the
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  Speaker 1: air about how the team looks, although he called games
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  Speaker 1: for a pretty damn good team, which we're about to
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  Speaker 1: talk about.
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  Speaker 1: aj the Yankees swept the Orioles. We'll get into what's
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  Speaker 1: good and what's bad for both sides of that matchup,
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  Speaker 1: but I do want to start with some pretty big news.
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Volpi has been a big part of the Yankees
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  Speaker 1: for his first few years of his career, and now
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  Speaker 1: he's coming back from soulder surgery. He's rehabbing in the
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  Speaker 1: minor leagues. The Yankees chose to option him, so they
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  Speaker 1: made a statement that they'd like to see Jose Cabiro
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  Speaker 1: continue in that starting shortstop role for now and more
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  Speaker 1: seasoning from Volpi as he tries to work himself back.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of layers to this story that I
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  Speaker 1: haven't seen a ton about yet, so I want to
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  Speaker 1: get into this too. Twenty more days in the minor leagues,
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  Speaker 1: his free agency gets pushed back a year from twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty eight to twenty twenty nine. That's not why the
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  Speaker 1: Yankees are doing it, in my opinion, but it is
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  Speaker 1: something to keep in mind. If he stays down there
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  Speaker 1: for a couple of weeks, you could, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: get some more articles popping up about the fact. And
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  Speaker 1: then one more thing for you, AJ, there's a guy
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  Speaker 1: named George Lombard Junior who is one of the top
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  Speaker 1: prospects in the sport and already looks defensively good to
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  Speaker 1: go in the big leagues, and he might jump over him.
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  Speaker 2: So there's a lot of action going on with the
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  Speaker 2: Yankee shortstop position these days.
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  Speaker 4: Huh what it was the famous Yankee Wally Pip. That's
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  Speaker 4: why you want to stay on the field. Do you
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  Speaker 4: always want to stay on the field. You always want
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  Speaker 4: to be there because you never know what can happen.
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  Speaker 4: We've seen this happen plenty of times where guys get
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  Speaker 4: injured and they lose their job because somebody just outplays them.
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  Speaker 4: And right now, Cabiiro and the Yankees are playing well.
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  Speaker 4: They don't want to mess with it and they don't
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  Speaker 4: want to have to worry about, well, how do we
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  Speaker 4: get Anthony Vultpi in the lineup and make him healthy.
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  Speaker 4: We need to see more out of him. We've talked
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  Speaker 4: about this how many years now. Dolpi is what he is.
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  Speaker 4: He gives you, you know, his defense is what it is.
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  Speaker 4: He's won a Gold Glove. But then the offense, the
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  Speaker 4: six seventy ops and all that whatever, the ops is
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  Speaker 4: over his career, right so this.
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  Speaker 5: Isn't really that. I don't think it's that big of
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  Speaker 5: a surprise.
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  Speaker 4: It's a surprise because of the name and the Volti hype,
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  Speaker 4: and the Yankees are like, hope, he's going to be
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  Speaker 4: the best player since Derek Jeter and this and that,
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  Speaker 4: and it hasn't worked out. But if you look at
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  Speaker 4: Volpi's numbers, he Cabero is a better player right now.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like in the Yankees feel that way. So yeah, well,
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  Speaker 4: could it possibly hurt his free agency, yes, but the
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  Speaker 4: Yankees don't care about that. The Yankees care about who's
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  Speaker 4: the best player to help them win right now, and
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  Speaker 4: right now it's Ose Cabiro. And this is what happens.
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  Speaker 4: You play good, you stay in the big leagues. You
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  Speaker 4: don't play good, you get sent down to Triple A
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  Speaker 4: or you get released. It's just this is the nature
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  Speaker 4: of the beast. It's a hard game. It's definitely a
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  Speaker 4: hard game, and it's what have you done for me lately?
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  Speaker 4: And in no way the Yankees swayed by talk radio
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  Speaker 4: to get Volpi out of there.
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  Speaker 3: They still believe in Anthony Volpi, but they also can
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  Speaker 3: look at history of people who have had shoulder surgeries.
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  Speaker 3: Not necessarily worried about his throwing because I think it's
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  Speaker 3: his left shoulder, But how is that power going to
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  Speaker 3: come back? Because offensively, you know what is the Offensively?
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  Speaker 3: I think he's you know, he's an eighteen to twenty
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  Speaker 3: home run guy, which some people would argue, well he
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  Speaker 3: should be a twelve home run guy and a higher
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  Speaker 3: batting average, blah blah blah. But there is you know,
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  Speaker 3: there's something that he has to bring back to the game.
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  Speaker 3: Is that power. And if that power is not there yet,
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  Speaker 3: while he's rehabbing, which some guys Matt McLean's the prime example.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not saying to the same player. I'm saying a
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  Speaker 3: shoulder surgery and it takes a little bit to get going.
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  Speaker 3: And if they have Jose Cavalierro playing well, then he's
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  Speaker 3: got over a seven hundred ops right now. He's playing well,
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  Speaker 3: playing a decent shortstop. I still think Volpi and they
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  Speaker 3: think Volpi is an upgrade at shortstop. I think Boone
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  Speaker 3: even said it. Once he comes back, he is an upgrade.
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  Speaker 3: What's the rush? They're winning games and Cabiro is not
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  Speaker 3: that much of a much of a step down, even
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  Speaker 3: if they thought he was a step down, like Volpi
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  Speaker 3: has to earn the spot in the sense that he
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  Speaker 3: has to be better than everybody else they're going to
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  Speaker 3: put out there, whether it's Lombard like Scott said, or
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  Speaker 3: it's Jose who's been there for the last two months
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  Speaker 3: in the big leagues month and a half.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think Lombard might come up this season.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if he starts hitting, they're going to call
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  Speaker 1: him up. The hitting right, he's got work to do.
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  Speaker 1: I mean he's at triple A. So if he goes
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  Speaker 1: on a heater for a month. They'll call him up
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  Speaker 1: if they feel like they have a spot for him.
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  Speaker 1: Caba Yerra can also shift over to third at some
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  Speaker 1: point if McMahon's not hitting for them and they want
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  Speaker 1: to platoon him more. There's a lot of action going
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  Speaker 1: on here. I mean aj Brian Cashman said, I think
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  Speaker 1: it was almost three weeks ago. Quote always the plan
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  Speaker 1: for Volpi to return once the rehab concluded in that
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  Speaker 1: twenty day window and start at shortstop. Guess what plans change,
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  Speaker 1: and I will say on the defensive side. Right now,
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  Speaker 1: Cabayarro is at a plus seven I think it's plus
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  Speaker 1: seven drs, which is best among shortstops in baseball. That's
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  Speaker 1: a stat that Iron Boon really likes. Some people that
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  Speaker 1: got some average to go right. He's got twelve stolen
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  Speaker 1: bag like he's he's doing it, and the Yankees look
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  Speaker 1: like the best team in the American League right now.
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  Speaker 1: The last thing you want to do if you're the
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  Speaker 1: Yankees is call him up. He doesn't play well, Like
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  Speaker 1: krat said, you're coming off shoulder surgery. Yankees lose some games,
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  Speaker 1: and then this is the favorite guy over the past
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  Speaker 1: couple of years for Yankee fans, media everything to kind
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  Speaker 1: of pour it on against and I actually understand what
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  Speaker 1: they're saying on one point. Sometimes you know, front office
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  Speaker 1: loves their move so much that they stick with it
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  Speaker 1: too long. And in this case, the Yankees are doing
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  Speaker 1: things a little bit more aggressively this year, optioning Louise Heal.
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  Speaker 1: This is a great sign of Hey, right now, what
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  Speaker 1: we've got is working. We don't want to disrupt that.
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  Speaker 1: If you look Chris Kershner in the athletic rope, of
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  Speaker 1: the one hundred and eighteen players who have had at
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  Speaker 1: least fifteen hundred played appearance in since Folpy debut in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, Volpi has the worst on base percentage,
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  Speaker 1: the second worst batting average, the third worst OPS and
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  Speaker 1: that's OPS not adjusted, and you're in Yankee Stadium, fourth
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  Speaker 1: worst adjusted weighted runs created plus, and seventh worst slugging percentage.
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  Speaker 3: He's not good.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, he's not He's not an above average player,
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  Speaker 4: so he doesn't deserve Just if this is Aaron Judge,
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  Speaker 4: guess what and whoever they call up? If Aaron Judge
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  Speaker 4: goes off and hits twenty homers, guess who's gonna come back?
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  Speaker 4: In line up, Aaron Judge, You'll find a place.
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  Speaker 5: For the other guy.
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  Speaker 4: But Anthony Volpi has not been that level of a player.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, and it's stinks if you're Anthony Volpi and
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  Speaker 4: stinks if you're a Vulpey fan, if you're stinks if
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  Speaker 4: you're a Yankee and you love Volpi. I'm sorry, but
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  Speaker 4: he hasn't earned that right to come back and just
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  Speaker 4: take that spot again, especially with the statute've thrown out
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  Speaker 4: about kaby Eiro. That's the way the Yankees are look
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  Speaker 4: at it, and good for them. It sucks for Anthony Volpe.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Anthony Volpi. Enjoy I don't even where Triple
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  Speaker 4: A Scranton. I guess I don't know where Triple anymore.
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  Speaker 4: Enjoy scrant for for a while until things get better.
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  Speaker 4: You figure it out.
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  Speaker 2: Mm hmm, yeah, the other.
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  Speaker 3: Person you have to like. I think I think a
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  Speaker 3: j and I say this all the time, but I
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  Speaker 3: think it gets lost because people just see superstars and
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  Speaker 3: superstars and that you know, this is never a story
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  Speaker 3: around superstars. Anthony is not a superstar. Do I believe
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  Speaker 3: that he still has some good baseball ahead of him?
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: And is he a big league shortstop. Absolutely, but the
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: biggest thing is you have to be better than the
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: other person. He could be better than twenty nine other shortstops. Well,
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: you know what, He's on the Yankees right now and
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: Jose cabiiro is doing well, so it's okay that they
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: can use him in Triple A and have Anthony Volpia's depth.
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: He has to be able to make that adjustment, which
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: is gonna be tough. He was up in the big
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: leagues I think at yeah, twenty two years old. So
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: now to have three straight years in the big leagues
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: and then be in the bushes. The fact that you've
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: been probably hitting with the one ear flap on your
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: rehab assignment and now you have to go and get
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: the Darth Vader two ear flat helmet. Like, there's a
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: lot of things that are adjustments, but ultimately you have
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: to be better than the next guy. And don't just
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: look ahead. He might look behind cause Lombard's coming too.
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• 17:05
  Speaker 1: it's fiercely competitive. The Yankees has done a really nice
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: job lately of developing some players. We're seeing Rice go
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: off again this weekend.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: A now they're home er.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: Yankees had it just a huge series, taking the first
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: three and then they've got one more on Monday to
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: finish up the series against Baltimore.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: But they're just looking at Dominic by the way they
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: do Baltimore. You think the Oriel stink right now. But
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: against the.
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: They're not playing well. I know they're not hit.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: I actually think people are going too hard on them.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: I think they're okay. I mean, yeah, they're not hitting,
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: their defense doesn't look great, and their pitching is off
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: to a slow start.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: Yet they're fifteen to nineteen.
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: So okay, So how are they decent that if you
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: said they're pitching, their defense and their offense stinks, so
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: which which one is good that they should be not
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: worried about.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: They've still won fifteen games, I think so. I think
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: the pitching will be better than this. I think the
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: defense will be better than this, and I think the
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: offense will be better than this.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: I'm concerned about their defense. I'm concerned about their defense.
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: I believe their offense is going to be good and
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: probably one of those things where, hey, it should should
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: be good at some point. I still think the Rangers
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: offense should be good. If they're not. If they're in
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: Globe life, they they can't hit. If they go on
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: the road, they can hit a little bit more. But
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: like the Orioles. I think that offense is gonna be good.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: I'm concerned about the defense, and I'm concerned about the
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: defense because or it's concerning to me because this pitching
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: staff needs some help. They need they you know, you
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: build that staff to be for years to be strikeout guys,
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: which you know Rogers can he get his strikeouts? Bradish
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: is a strikeout guy? Is it? And right now it's
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: not happening at the same clip that I think they
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: thought it was gonna happen, and then the bullpen.
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: Wasn't.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: I don't think the bullpen was built necessarily to be
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: able to withstand many blips in the road. And if
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: their defense isn't going very well, I just think. I
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: just think they're gonna have an uphill battle for the
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: most of it for the rest of the year.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: I just I think that the team on paper should
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: be better than this and will be better than this.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: I think they're going.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: I get it. I get it.
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: Well, here's the thing. The Yankees aren't going anywhere. The
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: Rays don't look like they're going anywhere. The only reason
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: the Oriols aren't a more of a story is because
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: the Red Sox have stunk so bad. I mean that's
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: in the American League is kind of stunk in general. Yep, sorry,
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: I mean the American League hasn't been good. The Yankees
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: raised in eighties are like the only teams like well,
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: I think the Tigers stuck over five hundred now, but
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: other than that, the American League ain't very good.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: So what we said last year not as good as
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: the National League.
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I'm sorry, but the Orioles, you can say, oh,
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: they're supposed to be this, They're supposed to be that.
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: They haven't been for two years now, Scott, I'm sorry.
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: Craig Albert has seems like he's gonna be a good manager, right,
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: but Jackson Holiday is still not back, right, But you know,
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: Peter Alonso hasn't clicked yet, Tyler and Ne thing hasn't
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: worked out, Kobe Mayo hasn't worked right, Coltin Cows are
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: all these guys that did all we're all counting on, right,
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: Westburg's heard again, It's like, okay, with some point, it's
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: like Anthony Volpi, you are what you are, and this
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: is what they've been for the last year and a half.
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: Now.
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: Sorry, I want the Orders to be good because I
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: like their team, and I like a lot of their
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: players on a personal level, but so they haven't been
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: very good the last couple of years.
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: They just haven't.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: I think offensively they do have. I think guys are
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: gonna start clicking. Why I say that, I just think
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: I think Adlee coming off the injury, has put together
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: a better at batch driving runs in. I think Gunner
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: is just always going to come back to where he is.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: Taylor Ward is having a good season statistically, but I
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: think he only has one homer yet. And so I
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: think this team offensively, you can count on Peter Alonzo's
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: I would bet the house that Peter Lonza is gonna
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: hit thirty five homers this year, and so I think
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: there's there's a lot of room for a lot of
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: these guys to go up as far as like more
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: of the counting stats, not just the batting average, but
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: like RBIs homers. I think they're gonna start I think
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: they're gonna get going. And I would agree with Scott
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: the fact that they've won fifteen and you would say
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: their team isn't hitting, playing good defense, or pitching very well.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: Yet I think that is where maybe some more optimism
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: than some other teams that are at fifteen.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: And nineteen, thank you my point, Yes, close enough to
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: five hundred that they are not clicking on any cylinder,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: but I think they will. So I just think it's
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: a team that can rattle off, you know, seven eight
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: nine wins in a row, where there's some other teams
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: with crappy starts that I just don't see it for.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: I mean, we talked.
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: About which pitchers do you trust in that starting rotation
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: to rattle off seven eight nine in a row.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Bradish first full season back, Rogers, Rogers when he returns
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: from the illness. So there's three already right from the jump,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: there's three in the back end.
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: Povich Kramer.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: I mean, Gibson well did well, but it clearly shows
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: like they call a guy like Trey Gibson up from
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: the minor leagues and somebody else opens for him, like
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: he doesn't start the game.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I just think they're going to hit So whatever,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: win eight out of ten or nine out of eleven.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: I just I think this team is gonna going to
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: be in the mix.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: That's me.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: If you think they're going to fall off, that's that's you.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: If I just don't think that's going to be the case.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: So now we know at this point A J hates
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: the Oils for the rest of the year. I like
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: them for the rest of the year.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Let's see what we think about the Red Sox coming up.
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: I didn't say I hate you.
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: I didn't I hated them at all. I said that
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: I like a lot of the players. I actually like,
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: I really like a lot of the players on the
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: team on a personal level. For a year and a half,
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: a year in two months year, in what thirty five
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: games or whatever it is, they haven't been good.
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: And actually kind of started a year.
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: It actually kind of started a little bit the year
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: before at the end, and then before they lost in
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: the playoffs. It's almost been longer than that that it
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: just thinks haven't been good.
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: And I don't know what.
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: They've changed managers, they've changed coaches, they've tried to mix
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: up some personnel, but it always comes back to me
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: for the starting pitching, and they're starting pitching. You know,
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: Rogers was good, but now this year he's kind of
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: been good, right, Radish's uh right, I mean, Jane Boss
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: is up and down right, And I don't know, I
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: just I don't know where they find eight wins in
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: a row.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Did you guys see this from the Kentucky Derby over
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: the weekend? Elmer Rodriguez has not won, but two cousins
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: that were the jockeys for the top two horses, and
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: he was in tears and saying how he was more
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: nervous Elmer was for this than he was for his
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Major league debut. Incredible age, not just one winning, but
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: then the second one. That these are two brothers and
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: they're his cousins taking one too, and the biggest freaking
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: race on the planet.
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: That's awesome. Good for him, good for his family.
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: Congratulations also to the woman trainer that was the first
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: woman ever to train the Kentucky Derby winner.
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: So it was cool.
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: Sadly I didn't get to watch it because we were
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: deep in our pregame prep in Detroit, but I heard
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: all about it and apparently the long shot came from
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: way behind on the outside. And the video of the
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: trainer going crazy with their friend that was couldn't believe
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: what was happening next to her. If you haven't seen it,
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: is absolutely epic.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: I haven't seen it. I want to see it. Horse
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: racing is horse race. The Kentucky Derby is something that
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: is always going to associate me with playing baseball, because
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: dudes would have we'd have a Kentucky Derby pool or whatever,
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: and guys would want to trade there, pay other guys
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: for the horse that they picked, and then the race
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: was coming and it was super close to the start
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: of the game and everyone yelling at the TV. So
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: for Elma Rodriguez to be there and seeing his family
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: on his horses, I can't imagine I would have been
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: hyped for.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Him, right, I mean, I'd be sitting there just rooting
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: for whatever he's got.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: Fam wise, that's really cool.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: It feels like insider trading.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Breaking news here on FT one of the best in
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: the sport. Derek Skougel back to back side, young winner
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: going down needing some surgery. Will Carol, our injury expert
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: and the star of Injury Territory joining us right now
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: to discuss it. Well, what can you tell us about
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: this surgery to remove the loose bodies? This the same
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: one that Edwin Diaz just got.
• 25:39
  Speaker 9: Yeah, that's exactly it's Scott.
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: It's loose bodies.
• 25:43
  Speaker 9: We used to call them bone chips, but now that
• 25:46
  Speaker 9: we know a little bit more about them. Sometimes they
• 25:49
  Speaker 9: just occur inside a structure. That could be a ligament,
• 25:52
  Speaker 9: that could be a tendon, it could be something breaking off.
• 25:57
  Speaker 9: But you go in there, you pull them out, you
• 26:00
  Speaker 9: make sure nothing else is clean. You try to see
• 26:03
  Speaker 9: if there's something like a bone spur that broke off,
• 26:07
  Speaker 9: whether it was the elecron process, which is the end
• 26:11
  Speaker 9: of the elbow slamming together. So a really tough one there,
• 26:16
  Speaker 9: and one where you know it's a simple surgery, but
• 26:21
  Speaker 9: you have to realize that the bone chips are not
• 26:24
  Speaker 9: the problem. They're the sign of a previous problem.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: Are they able to diagnose that when they get in
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: there what the sign of the previous problem was.
• 26:34
  Speaker 9: Yeah, the surgeons have gotten really good at this being
• 26:38
  Speaker 9: able to see what it is. You can see where
• 26:40
  Speaker 9: a bone spur has broken off. You can usually with
• 26:43
  Speaker 9: those chips kind of forensically take a look at it.
• 26:47
  Speaker 9: You'll take a look at the end of the process,
• 26:49
  Speaker 9: see whether the bones are slamming together, whether those are
• 26:53
  Speaker 9: those loose bodies are in there. The fact that they're
• 26:56
  Speaker 9: calling them loose bodies kind of makes it sound like
• 26:58
  Speaker 9: they're a floater and they may know this that it's
• 27:01
  Speaker 9: not embedded within one of the structures like a ligament
• 27:04
  Speaker 9: or attendant, so that might be a little bit telling.
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: And what they're saying timetable, What is a normal timetable
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: before return for a picture and with this injury, yeah.
• 27:16
  Speaker 9: This is significantly changed and it kind of depends on
• 27:18
  Speaker 9: what they find when they're in there. It used to
• 27:20
  Speaker 9: be they would just remove the bodies and put them
• 27:22
  Speaker 9: right back in there once the inflammation was down. I
• 27:23
  Speaker 9: can remember Johan Santana came back and just shy of
• 27:28
  Speaker 9: fifteen days and so it's possible to come back, but
• 27:33
  Speaker 9: is it the smartest thing to do, especially for a.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: Guy like Scobel.
• 27:36
  Speaker 9: We saw him shake out his arm last week and
• 27:39
  Speaker 9: this has to be.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: The signal from that. Now he stayed in.
• 27:45
  Speaker 9: He struck out the side, so he obviously still had
• 27:47
  Speaker 9: the capability, but he was feeling it. If you think
• 27:50
  Speaker 9: about Hunter Green, he was saying it felt like he
• 27:53
  Speaker 9: was being stabbed every time he extended his arm.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: That can't be fun.
• 27:58
  Speaker 9: We've seen it with Diaz and now with schoobl This
• 28:00
  Speaker 9: is something that we're catching more and more often. I
• 28:03
  Speaker 9: was just saying on an injury territory that it seems
• 28:07
  Speaker 9: that we're catching these things earlier. We've seen less Tommy
• 28:11
  Speaker 9: John surgeries this year, but we've seen virtually the same
• 28:15
  Speaker 9: number fifty four to fifty two if you look at
• 28:18
  Speaker 9: where we were starting May first compared year over year.
• 28:22
  Speaker 9: So maybe we're just catching these things earlier. Maybe we're
• 28:25
  Speaker 9: actually getting better at missing two months rather than twelve.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: Thoughts on, you know, the Tiger's getting hit with injuries lately.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: But also just to throw the conspiracy theory out there,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: because you know it's going to happen. Fans are going
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: to go, oh, Edwin Diaz and Terrek Scoogle both pitched
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: in the World Baseball Classic.
• 28:44
  Speaker 9: Yeah, and you know, let's go one further and Cal
• 28:48
  Speaker 9: Rawly has been down this weekend with what seems to
• 28:52
  Speaker 9: be an oblique they've said side soreness now rather than
• 28:56
  Speaker 9: general sort of. I don't think there's any evidence of that.
• 28:58
  Speaker 9: I mean, Schooble's been healthy up to this point. He
• 29:02
  Speaker 9: didn't have this problem, showed absolutely no signs, and he's
• 29:05
  Speaker 9: been very very good this year, both at the Classic
• 29:10
  Speaker 9: and since Diaz not a problem he's ever had previously.
• 29:15
  Speaker 9: He had he had a previous elbow issue back in
• 29:18
  Speaker 9: twenty nineteen. But I don't think we can connect twenty
• 29:22
  Speaker 9: nineteen twenty twenty six. I think this is something that
• 29:25
  Speaker 9: just occurred. I think with Diaz especially, and thinking about
• 29:29
  Speaker 9: this would be Schooble as well because the insurance issue.
• 29:33
  Speaker 9: But Diaz had a physical when he came in with
• 29:35
  Speaker 9: the Dodgers and did not have that problem. You would
• 29:38
  Speaker 9: assume when Scooble had his insurance physical, there is no
• 29:41
  Speaker 9: way they would have let him even pitch that one
• 29:43
  Speaker 9: game if they saw a problem with his elbow.
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: So I think this is something new.
• 29:49
  Speaker 9: I think this is something that happens, and I think
• 29:53
  Speaker 9: we're seeing it more because the doctors and the athletic
• 29:57
  Speaker 9: trainers and the rest of the medical staff have gotten
• 29:59
  Speaker 9: better at diagnosed this. But I think when we saw
• 30:02
  Speaker 9: him shake that arm out last time out, that was
• 30:04
  Speaker 9: that was the first signal.
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: There's no WBC. Please let's not do that.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: I'm not I'm just saying that Goble.
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: Pitched one Goble pitch one time.
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: He threw like what four innings would have been the
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: same as if he was pitching in.
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: Lakeland on the back. I mean, come on, like, let's not.
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: Let's not make it against it was against Great Britain. Yeah, please,
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: let's just not because here's the problem. If we say that,
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: then people will say, oh, look they're you know, doing
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: this or doing that. So let's please let's not even
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: go there.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: But I bring it up because people bring it up
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: on social media because you can say whatever you want there,
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: and then we're on here to bring on people that
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: know what they're talking about, like Will Will.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: We're gonna bring the other crowd back and close out
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: the show. But thanks for the quick bat phone call.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Appreciate you, and we'll see on Injury Territory for more
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: on this.
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: Thanks a lot.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Scott Kevin McGonagall Rookie of the Month in April. Good
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: at ball so far in his career. Cody Stavenhagen posted
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: this yesterday with runners in scoring position. He's eleven for
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: twenty four or five walks, one strikeout. I mean that's
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: kind of the dream right there. Aj you get patting average,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: you get slug you get on base, and you get
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: contact in the key spots.
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, listen, this guy is good man. I watched this
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: I take VP and I watched him play on Saturday.
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: He's gonna be good. He's not gonna win the re
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: Rookie of the Year Jim Bowden. Sorry, that's Murk Commi's
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: but uh, he's going to be a really nice player.
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: And by the way, Cody Cody hung out on Saturday
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: the whole time in the Rangers dugout. Is he banned
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: from the Tigers dugout. We're gonna have to ask Cody
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: next time we have him on because he would spend
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: more time with the Rangers than he did with the Tigers.
• 31:40
  Speaker 5: And I was kind of confused, you know.
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: I was talking to Jared Sandler. We were talking him soccer,
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: about Tottenham soccer, and every time I looked up, Cody
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: was on the Tigers, not on the Tigers side.
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: He was on the Rangers side. I was kind of
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: confused about it.
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: He was learning learning about the Rangers. Can you teach
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: something This is a much longer segment. Can Can you
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: teach somebody to hit like Kevin McGonagall. You watched him live,
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: I've watched plenty of games. Do you think you can
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: teach that because nobody's teaching it right now. Everybody's teaching
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: you know, turn and burn launch. He swings like that,
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: though he does swing like he's got a lot of
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: monement in that swing. He's got a lot of movement.
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: There's a bigger move than I thought then I remember
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: seeing him in But he gets the barrel to the ball,
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: you know what he also does. Yes, he has a
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: lot of walks, but he does swing early a lot,
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: and that's where the strikeouts go down. So I don't know.
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: He's a good player there he is right there, he's
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: a good player. It's gonna be really good play shortstod
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: nice too.
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: Rookie of the Year, did Jeff.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: Did you see this one? Sneak up over the weekend?
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Aj Louis Torrence, who's one of the better backup catchers
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: in the sport. Two years, eleven and a half million
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: bucks on an extension. He had switched agents somewhat recently.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: Clearly he wanted to do something and not hit free agency.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Two million incentives and no options. So he gets a
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: couple of years for some pretty good, pretty good money.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: That's probably the market rate for somebody like him in
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: free agency.
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: Good for him, Yeah, he likes where he's at. Guaranteed money,
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: why not take it? If I was him, I would
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: have taken this and ran to the bank. Too good
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: for Louise Torrance. He's not yeah, I mean he's not
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: a starting catcher. The fact that he's getting essentially without
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: going on the free agent market what Victor Carratini got
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: when he got a two year deal. I think he
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: was two years twelve. I think Higgy got a little
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: bit more than that. Like good for Luis Torrenz and
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: good for the fact that a guy that was a
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: Rule five pick out of the Yankees organization and kind
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: of bounced around how to re establish himself has now
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: found a spot in New York.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: I'll always remember this line from Pete Alonzo two years ago.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: We're talking to him in spring training. He's on this
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: show and we're like, give us a guy who's who
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: getting lit this year, who's gonna have a breakout, And
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: he's like, weishe to Reds And I will say he
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: was pretty good that year, He's been pretty good since.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: He was just like, he's made some changes and this
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: guy can swing the bat. And Pete was right. It
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: was such a Pete answer aja for him to go
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: with the backup catcher.
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, someone who, without Alvarez getting hurt, might have
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: been never gotten on the field, but there is not
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: good for him. Man, take listen. As a backup guy,
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: you take any deal you can get. If they want
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: to offer you a two year guaranteed contract, you take.
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: In run exactly. I always asked for to your extensions, like, hey,
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: don't let me get back to minor league free agency.
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: You can lock me up now.
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: Well it worked for him, I mean, I think he looked.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: My guess is that his party kind of pushed this,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: because when you see a switch like that, it usually
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: means maybe one group wants you to get the free
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: agency one doesn't, or maybe you're going over numbers and
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: you're not on the same page, any of that. But
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: he clearly figured it out now and got himself all
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: tied up. He also probably has an idea of how
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: the off season going to look. I don't know if
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: teams are going to be super focused on the few
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: weeks of free agency. They have to sign a backup catcher.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: So he might have been chilling for a long time
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: since the lockout's going to take into probably at least,
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: you know, February March range.
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: So we could've been fired. When you've been fired and
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: you have a chance to lock anything up it's you
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: go after it. So maybe they got him for less
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: than market value. But to me, I love this for
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: him and I love the value. He's hitting one eighty
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: this year. He could easily be fired from tomorrow if
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: they find another catchman.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: Good point.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Let's say, better than box scores, we're going to mostly
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: hit Midwest teams. We're going to start with the Chicago
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: White Sox winning a series over the weekend and Murakami
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: continues to smash pitches a j How impressed are you
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: with him? I mean, this has got to be fun
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: for you man. I mean, they might not make the
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: playoffs this year, but they're hovering around the five hundred
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: marks so far into the season. During the Foul Territory era,
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: the White Sox have been the worst team in baseball.
• 36:14
  Speaker 5: The Rock Easel.
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: Rock Easel take that right behind just Scott after this year,
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: and Bill might take that over for you. Listen to
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: White Sox. Not only did they win too out of
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: three in San Diego, they probably should have swept him.
• 36:26
  Speaker 5: If you watch the.
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: Game yesterday, they had a lot of chances and swinging
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: bun from Bogie from Bogerts is the reason that the
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: Patres took the lead so h and won.
• 36:35
  Speaker 5: That last came in the eighth inning. Then Mason Miller
• 36:37
  Speaker 5: came in and struck out the world. But White Sox,
• 36:40
  Speaker 5: the White Sox have some hope.
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: I mean, listen, they get Teal back Montgomery and Murkami
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: of the you Know or Not. They're almost Judge and
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: Rice esque with their home runs. Not quite that level,
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: but they're getting there. The pitching has been better, Dave
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: led by Davis Martin who's pitching to night Sean Berg,
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: has been really good. The bullpen, I think, has been
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: all right. Yeah, the White Sox are looking up. They're
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: trending up.
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: They're not as bad as you guys all want.
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: Them to be. Let's pump the brakes. There's no fans.
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: That's why Luis Robert wasn't there. It's cold. It's not
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: the Cubs. It's no. I mean, there's some cool stories,
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: but okay, you watch them every single day. Do you
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: feel like they're at bats are getting better or do
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: you think that the or do you think that the
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: fact that more comedy and oh, I guess it's right
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: up there, more commy calls in Montgomery. They have twenty
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: two homers. Combined the two of them, like, do you
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: think they're at bats are good? Or are you're just
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: waiting around for somebody to hit a homer? And is
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: that sustainable with the fact that their pitching staff is
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: going to give up a lot of runs as this
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: season goes on.
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: I mean, I think that what they're doing is sustainable.
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: But every team relies on home runs. Now you're acting
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: like this isn't a big thing. The teams hit the
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: home runs and the teams feels like it's more.
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: With a White Sox. It feels like it's very three
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: true outcomes. And maybe it's just because I only tune
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: in for the more comedy or Colson Montgomery at bats,
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: because who else am I gonna tune in for?
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: You know, I mean my draft? Is my drows doing
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: all right? I mean Vargas is a drawn bass guy, right?
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: I mean, you know, Acunya has been awful, Kiro has
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: been awful. That's why Romo is getting to play a
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: lot more. I mean, Luis Akunya. If you watched as
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: a bat of Mason Miller lost yesterday, he swung at
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: a ball that almost hit Craig Stammon in the foot
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: on the last pitch of the game.
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: It was that bad of a slider that he swung at.
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: So, uh, you.
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: Know, it's just they still have some holes and eventually
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: he's still gonna go back to this. If the White
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: Socks are ever gonna get back into competition, they're gonna
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: have spend money, and they're gonna have spend money on
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: the right players. But they do have at least at
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: least they have some pieces now on the chessboard, right
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: and all the people saying they're gonna you know, trademark comedy, Now, no,
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: you don't, you don't trade mark commedy. Know, he's something
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: that people actually look forward to seeing. And you keep
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: those guys around. He sells tickets. Colson Montgomery is going
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: to be there for a bit. But I think I
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: asked you this the other day, like is there a
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: piece right now on this team that is gonna get
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: MVP votes for a season that will help this team
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: make the playoffs?
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: Eventually? You follow what I'm saying, like, it's Coolson Montgomery,
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: that type of star. Is that type of star in
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: their organization? Because if it's not, then is this just
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: all fools? Gold? Are we just winning? Are we winning?
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: More games, like they win seventy games this year. I mean,
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: they're gonna have a parade that's gonna be like a
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: little parade because Jerry's not gonn want to spend a
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: lot of money, you know what I mean.
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: I mean, I think I think Colson's a player that
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: can do that. I think Mark Comi is a player
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: that's gonna get him. If h'its forty five to fifty
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: home runs, he's going to get some votes. And I
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: think Colson Montgomery obviously is proven if he stays his shortstop.
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: They'd like to for some reason, they don't like to
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: play him at shortstop, which you haven't figured out, because
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: he was decent there as a as a rookie last
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: year when he played short, So they'd like to throw
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: him at third. Let Acune you play. That's the thing
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: I don't understand. But yeah, I think those two definitely
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: are something you can build around. And when Teal comes back,
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: that's another one that you can that you can build around.
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: So there's three guys I think that that can definitely
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: lead you to where you want to get.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: It's good start, all right, Well, maybe one day they'll
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: be like the pirates who are relevant so far this year.
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: In the first six weeks of the season, they just
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: swept the Reds. Impressive series and you had that game
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: on what Saturday where the Reds walked seven in a row,
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: which tied a record. That's tough to do. But you
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: know it started Friday. Mitch Keller shut down the Reds.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: Easy win for them there, and then they blew him
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: out again on Saturday. And then Sunday was tight and
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: they're showing how they went can win a tight game
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: like this. Ashcraft was really strong and he kept up
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: with Chase Burns the whole time. And then you had
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: Connor Griffin helped to create a little offense with Cruise
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: knocking him home. I mean, that's a really solid series
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: aj for a Pirates team that was going up against
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: a very hot Reds team.
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: Did you see Connor Griffi's first fourhead games. All the
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: hits were like one hundred and eight miles an hour.
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: They're all rockets everywhere. So he's starting to figure it out.
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: I mean, he's you know, he just turned twenty. He's
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: starting to get there. But the Reds swept the Pirates,
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: The Cardinals sweep the Pirates, or you know, the Pirate
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: sweep the Reds, the Cardinal sweep it. It's like the
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: Cubs can't lose the Cubs like sixteen and three in
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: their last nineteen. You know, Central was stronger than I
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: think we thought they were going.
• 41:33
  Speaker 5: To be, and it's good. It's good to see Central
• 41:36
  Speaker 5: standing up for each other.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it wasn't just them too, I mean the Cubs
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: swept the Diamondbacks Kratz. The Cardinals took two out of
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: three against the Dodgers.
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: Cubs, by the.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: Way, I think it's eleven in a row now at
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: home for them in a row, and then they're about
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: to take on the Reds in a four gamer this week.
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: And for the Cardinals, you're catching the dot when they're
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: slumping at the plate, But who cares. I mean, you're
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: facing the Dodgers. They've got most of their stars intact
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: playing and they were able to string a couple wins
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: together before they ran into Cy young contender Justin Robleski
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: on Sunday, who seems to be shutting everyone down. But
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: a strong series for them, a strong start for them
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: on Friday when you know they had the seven to
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: two win and Jordan Walker still I know he slowed
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: down a little bit, but still, I mean, he's got
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: what ten homers already through the first not even quarter
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: of the season, yet.
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: He had four hits the other day. The fact that,
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: I mean, the Cardinals are twenty and fourteen, like there's
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: no I don't care if you think they're good or not.
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: They're winning games, and they're winning games with a pitching
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: staff a dozen strike guys out. They're winning games with
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: a lineup that you know what, has been there for
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: a minute with the Cardinals. But now they're all getting
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: consistent at bets. So which came first, the chicken or
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: the egg? The fact that now they're not all bouncing
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: around three different positions or getting sent down to Triple A.
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: It's just, hey, you know what you get to learn
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: in the big leagues, Which goes back to the whole
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: Connor Griffin thing. The day last week and I don't
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: remember what day it was, he hit a I think
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: it was kind of a you know, a late game
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: meaningless home run, but Connor Griffin hit a ball to
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: the opposite field for a home run like four or
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: five rows deep in PNC, not on the Clemente wall,
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: but kind of left of the Clemente Wall. It was
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: it was a rocket, and since then, I feel like
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: some of his at bats have turned less into that,
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: Like I'm trying to hit it as hard as I
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: can to left field, and those were going foul, and
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: it seemed like it seemed like a young kid at
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: twenty years old who just had his birthday presence by
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: the bouncy house, like is making adjustments in the big leagues.
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: And to see a four hit game, yikes, Like it
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: was clear he's ready to go and he's going to
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: have to continue to make adjustments s, which everybody does
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: in the big.
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: Wish a couple other quick notes on the way out here.
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: Royals also with a much needed sweep over the weekend,
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: and it was Randy Johnson weekend and they just crashed it.
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: They crashed it and took down the Mariners.
• 44:12
  Speaker 4: What's wrong with the Maybe we should be asking what's
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: wrong with the Mariners because they aren't playing very well
• 44:16
  Speaker 4: at all.
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: I mean, but they were playing well until that series
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: and then the Royals. I did not have If I
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: would have picked the series of Who's Gonna beat Who,
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: in that series, it would have been the Mariners beating
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: the Royals. Because the Royals looked Bobo nuts.
• 44:32
  Speaker 10: Joe Mack is set to make his major league debut
• 44:35
  Speaker 10: after an uneven start to his pro career. He broke
• 44:37
  Speaker 10: out in twenty twenty four with twenty four home runs
• 44:40
  Speaker 10: and carried that into twenty twenty five, when he reached
• 44:43
  Speaker 10: triple A and hit twoin fifty with eighteen homers and
• 44:45
  Speaker 10: a four to fifty nine slugging percentage. At the plate,
• 44:48
  Speaker 10: Mac offers above average power from the left side, with
• 44:51
  Speaker 10: a compact swing in the ability to drive the ball
• 44:53
  Speaker 10: when he connects and do.
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: A lot of damage to the pull side.
• 44:56
  Speaker 10: Defensively, he's as steady as any catcher coming up to
• 44:59
  Speaker 10: the major leagues right now. Mac is an above average
• 45:02
  Speaker 10: receiver with a strong arm, and throughout thirty two percent
• 45:05
  Speaker 10: of base dealers last season and was at twenty nine
• 45:07
  Speaker 10: percent leading up to his call up this year. It's
• 45:09
  Speaker 10: a well rounded profile as he gets ready for his
• 45:11
  Speaker 10: first opportunity in the major leagues.
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: So that's Jacob Brudner, who is part of Baseball America
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: and is on that Hot Sheet show that we love
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: and we're a part of here too, So you can
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: see him usually most Tuesdays, but that's a good report.
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: I mean, aj, that's as glowing as a review as
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: it gets. And I imagine that the bat you hope
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: comes around. But when you hear the kind of talk
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: on his glove and the way that he's calling games,
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: well not calling games, the way that he's can't say
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: that was the mind, the way that he's handling things
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: behind the plate, it's it's a good sign. Augustine Ramirez
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: was terrible. He was the worst defensive catcher in baseball
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: on almost every category defense wise.
• 45:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so this is hopefully an upgrade defensively, they'll hope
• 45:57
  Speaker 4: Joke can hit. Congratulations to the kid. I mean, he's
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: got no pressure. He didn't have to call the game.
• 46:02
  Speaker 4: He just listens in his earpiece and puts down whatever
• 46:04
  Speaker 4: they say. So that's nice, you know, you know that
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: was always a big thing. Are they ready to call
• 46:08
  Speaker 4: a game? But if he can throw and he can
• 46:09
  Speaker 4: catch the ball, it'd be a nice upgrade. If he
• 46:11
  Speaker 4: swings about a little bit awesome, But it's always awesome
• 46:14
  Speaker 4: when you gets your first call up and your first
• 46:15
  Speaker 4: opportunity to play at the major league level. And we'll
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: see how it goes for mister Mac. But Hey know, goshroud,
• 46:21
  Speaker 4: so many times you hear this catcher is going to
• 46:23
  Speaker 4: be the next this, or this catcher is going to
• 46:24
  Speaker 4: be the next this and just doesn't work out.
• 46:27
  Speaker 5: Catching is really hard to evaluate.
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: Catching is definitely always what have you done for me lately?
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: Like you have to come up and always produce. You
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: always have to be a stalwart behind the plate. You
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: can't let balls get by you. Like the fact that
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: in the receiving numbers, everyone's like, oh, pass balls are
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: totally fine. Never have I ever said there was a
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: pass ball that was like, it's okay, I was really
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: ripping some strikes. Joe Mack from my assistant coach, My
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: assistant coach and in the high school at the high
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: school that I coach at, worked with him this offseason,
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: and he said, great worker. He really gets it in
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: the sense that like he's he's above average defensively from
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: the other big league catchers that he's worked with. So
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: that's that's a huge upgrade for a pitching staff that
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: I've seen some balls just constantly get by, not blocked,
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: and so they've upgraded him.
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: Okay, I'm going to see if you guys match my
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: rage on this one. Chase Dolander is one of the
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: best pitching prospects in baseball. For a while, it was
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: going to be a fascinating case to see how someone
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: like that in fair course field with this kind of stuff,
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: And it took a little bit of time, not that
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: much time. And then this year you just see him
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: shoving all of a sudden, you know, he's on a
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: roll here. I know he did this. He had one
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: one inning appearance or whatever, but the rest of them
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: he's been starting. They've bet a short leash on him, guys.
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: But like the last three starts five and a third, six,
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: seven innings, whatever. He ended up going five and a
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: third in this one, six earned runs against the Braves,
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: one of the better offenses in baseball. Originally, aj he
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: was I think slidded as the starter because I looked
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, I'm going to watch a
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: little Braves Rockies, and then I see Bernardino starting as
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: the opener. I was like, oh, what happened to Dolander?
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: And they're like, oh, they're just going to use them.
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: They're just going to do their opener and then they're
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: going to bring in Dolander. I'm like, are you fucking
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: kidding me. They're doing this with.
• 48:21
  Speaker 4: Him working to Baseball twenty twenty six. They don't want
• 48:25
  Speaker 4: him to get hurt in that first inning. They don't
• 48:26
  Speaker 4: want them to have to face the line up that
• 48:28
  Speaker 4: third time. I mean, he's been pitching great. Let this
• 48:30
  Speaker 4: guy roll. Let this guy roll. What are they protecting
• 48:33
  Speaker 4: him from at this point, He's been up long enough,
• 48:35
  Speaker 4: he's been in the minor leagues long enough.
• 48:36
  Speaker 5: Let this guy eat. I don't get this. This is
• 48:39
  Speaker 5: trying to be too cute.
• 48:39
  Speaker 4: And then he got whacked around, and then people like
• 48:42
  Speaker 4: us are going to say, oh, it's because he didn't
• 48:44
  Speaker 4: get to start the game.
• 48:45
  Speaker 5: Yes, it's because he didn't get to start the game.
• 48:47
  Speaker 4: And we've talked about it with guys who have on
• 48:49
  Speaker 4: this show that have had openers for him, and they're like,
• 48:52
  Speaker 4: it's a different routine. You warm up alongside, you're long
• 48:55
  Speaker 4: tossing the next to the guy. I'm the starting pitcher.
• 48:58
  Speaker 4: Let me start the game now. If there's a if
• 49:01
  Speaker 4: there's a reason, a reason, a guy's struggling, and you
• 49:05
  Speaker 4: know they're gonna do this. It looks like the Brian
• 49:06
  Speaker 4: Bayo and in the Red Sox. But I just don't
• 49:10
  Speaker 4: understand it. If the guy is not good enough to
• 49:12
  Speaker 4: start the first inning, then why are we bringing him
• 49:15
  Speaker 4: in the second inning. If he's good enough to be
• 49:16
  Speaker 4: a starting pitcher thirty times a year, let him pitch
• 49:19
  Speaker 4: the first inning, especially if they're young, and let him
• 49:20
  Speaker 4: figure it out. But instead we want to just oh no,
• 49:23
  Speaker 4: well we'll have someone cover that so he doesn't have
• 49:26
  Speaker 4: to face him three times, Like come on, like we
• 49:29
  Speaker 4: need to be better in this. I'm sorry, and that's
• 49:30
  Speaker 4: my old school mentality and whatever, Yeah.
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: Helicopter parent, Well we'll we'll try to save him. There's
• 49:40
  Speaker 3: there's definitely like you're not going anywhere, Rockies. Groom him
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: to be your guy, or if you don't think he's
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: gonna be your guy, give it to somebody else. Maybe
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: he does like because because the matchup is more favorable
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: in the second inning. I just I feel like it's
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: setting yourself up for failure in a long run. Maybe
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: not in that game, but in the.
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: Long Let's start with Okamoto, dude, I really like his swing.
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: Aj I'm a big Okamoto fan. I don't consider players
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: like that a rookie. Actually, Jim Bowden the king of that.
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: He campaigns every year, saying that the players that come
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: over from Japan should not be treated as rookies just
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: because it's their first year in the big whatever. That's
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: not my argument. But he looks very seasoned. I know
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: he had a little bit of a slow point, like
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: first started out hot, then slowed down. Now I think
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: it's five homers in the last four games. You had
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: a homer, and every game of this series against the Twins,
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: who have the worst bullpen in baseball. But anyway, the
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: other night he just missed his third of the night,
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: went like three eighty two. And then the quote after
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: the game was, I didn't have my pregame case Adea today.
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: I think if I'd had that, it would have been
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: a home run. Next day homer, And he said he
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: had the case Adia. So he's loving the dillas.
• 51:12
  Speaker 5: Is that all it takes is some case ofdillas hit homers.
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: He's superstitious.
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: It's a little stitious, but you hit homers. I mean,
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: if the case of d is the thing, get that,
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: get that each your stang casadilla.
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: He had one what was it on Saturday?
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: Because I was watching I watched almost the whole Blue
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: Jays Twins game on Saturday, because I put some some
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: pretty good money down on that one on a live bet.
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: I was with a buddy and I was like, it's
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: when you sound really cool. I'm like, yo, the Twins
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: Bullpen's really bad. It was like four to two. I
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: was like, let's let's hit it, and we did, and
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: Okamoto hit a Moor comedy shot. It was like four
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: thirty to center. Just he's got some crazy pop tree
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: trunk legs. I really liked the player, so I think
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: Blue Jays fans are gonna like him too. Uh, let's
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: finish with know we have two more things one minute
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: each year. Did you see this clever marketing tactic from
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: the Brewers. They have a pothole filler, so they're free
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: filling potholes around Wisconsin and the only catch is that
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: they get to put their Brewer logo in those potholes.
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: So you're just going to see that little Brewer logo
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: all over Wisconsin. I think that's really cool. That's like
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: a good way to get back to the community, right.
• 52:25
  Speaker 4: Love it, love it, and it makes people aware every
• 52:27
  Speaker 4: time they drive their car and they're trying to dodge
• 52:29
  Speaker 4: the old pothole, they see the Brewers logo cool.
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: My thing is, I mean, probably almost everyone's been through
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: a pothole, especially if you're in the Northeast or in
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: the Midwest and you know somewhere where it snows, you
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: just get crushed. And probably everyone's been through one where
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: you feel like it messed up your car. So now
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: like there's someone's going to go over that and be
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: like you saved me today. Thank you, Milwaukee, You're the best.
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: Thank you Brewers.
• 52:52
  Speaker 3: Let's finishest in our community. One of the best teams
• 52:55
  Speaker 3: I ever played for in the community of Milwaukee.
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: I think they get it on that front. They've always
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: been sharp on that front to be able to connect
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: with fans. Last one before you can all watch Dodgers Territory,
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: which is starting in seconds, and we'll redirect you there
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: if you'd like to watch it. Just a note from
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: your buddy aj in friend of ours don Orsilo, who said,
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: crush to learn of the news of John Sterling's passing.
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: And I think this.
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: Is a good way to hit home for how it
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: doesn't just change lives in baseball fans, it can change careers.
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: Don Arcilo is one of them, he said, single most
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: responsible person for my cadence and delivery today as he
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: learned studied his rhythms while on buses Knights in the
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: New York Penn League. He said, my current bogue ghost
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: boom call is and was an ode to John Sterling.
• 53:42
  Speaker 4: Love you, John, one of the best. Hopefully you didn't
• 53:46
  Speaker 4: sink on his miniot. Yeh, haven't seen as miniot. It
• 53:49
  Speaker 4: holds about two hundred and forty pounds. And Don don
• 53:53
  Speaker 4: quit eating those cases. Dio's out there and Sandy here.
• 53:56
  Speaker 5: Go, buddy.
• 53:57
  Speaker 3: I love you.
• 53:58
  Speaker 5: He's one of the best. Man.
• 53:59
  Speaker 4: Don's one of the classy guy. He gets it and
• 54:03
  Speaker 4: fortunate enough to being able to not only have him
• 54:05
  Speaker 4: in Boston but also get to work with them a lot.
• 54:06
  Speaker 4: So good job done. Congratulations on being a good guy.
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: He's got some Sterling in him, He's got the kron.
• 54:14
  Speaker 3: He's got all that work.
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: You know, many try it, many foul Don succeeds.
• 54:20
  Speaker 3: Case ideas are Mexican pizzas. If anybody didn't know, just
• 54:24
  Speaker 3: ingredients are pretty much the same Mexican pizza.
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: Also, if you don't know what a case is is.
• 54:31
  Speaker 4: There's actually there's actually a Mexican pizza, and then there's
• 54:34
  Speaker 4: actually you go to Taco Bell. They have a Mexican
• 54:38
  Speaker 4: pizza which is delicious.
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: By the way, it is IDAs separate.
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: Mm hmm, right, okay, sure, I hope everyone learned something today.
• 54:50
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