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Bucs option Konnor Griffin, Contract extensions for John Schneider, Ross Atkins & Cristopher Sánchez · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: with you both a lot to get to, gentlemen, so
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  Speaker 1: let's charge the mounds.
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  Speaker 2: Charge about.
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  Speaker 1: AJ a couple of inches away from a World Series championship.
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  Speaker 1: In twenty twenty five, the Toronto Blue Days have awarded
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  Speaker 1: both John Schneider, their manager, and Ross Atkins their GM
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  Speaker 1: an extension, so it looks like they're going to be
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  Speaker 1: around Toronto for the foreseeable future. It looks like Atkins
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  Speaker 1: it was extended until twenty thirty one and John Schneider
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  Speaker 1: was extended until twenty twenty eight. Good move.
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  Speaker 3: Here.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely, what's not to like about this move. I just
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  Speaker 4: wish the only thing I don't like is that we
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  Speaker 4: were just there and they could have announced it when
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  Speaker 4: I was sitting next to John Schneider or Mark Schapiro,
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  Speaker 4: either one. You could have told us that this was
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  Speaker 4: coming down the pike. But good move for both these guys. Listen,
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  Speaker 4: John Scheider was probably on the hottest seat of all
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  Speaker 4: going into last year, and all he did was take
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  Speaker 4: that team to Game seven and inches away from beating
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  Speaker 4: Alana's Dodgers in the World Series. So I love this move.
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  Speaker 4: Ross Atkins made some moves, John Schneider made some moves.
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  Speaker 4: They got Vladdie extended, They went out and made some
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  Speaker 4: signings this offseason Akamoto and some other things. So I
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  Speaker 4: love this move. And the Blue Jays are doing exactly
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  Speaker 4: what you're supposed to do as an organization. When your
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  Speaker 4: team is good, you go out and you use the
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  Speaker 4: money that you're making off the team and you spend
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  Speaker 4: it and you reinvested in the organization. And they're doing
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  Speaker 4: that to a t. So congratulations Snids and congratulations Ross Atkins.
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  Speaker 4: Be there for a while, at least getting paid for
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  Speaker 4: a while.
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  Speaker 1: Eric It's crazy because, as AJ was just saying, it
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  Speaker 1: seems like, you know, John Schneider was kind of on
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  Speaker 1: the hot seat. Is he going to make it through
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the season. What kind of moves is
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  Speaker 1: he making? What's going on here? It's amazing e K
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  Speaker 1: how winning changes everything.
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  Speaker 3: H Yes, it does.
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  Speaker 5: And they had been winning, and I would have said
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  Speaker 5: ross Atkins was even on more of a hot seat
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  Speaker 5: than Schneid's was, because he went from building a winning team.
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  Speaker 5: I think he made a lot of good moves to
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  Speaker 5: the fact that he didn't bring enough offense back, didn't
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  Speaker 5: bring back a guy like Matt Chapman who played Platinum
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  Speaker 5: Glove defense for him at third base, and like it
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  Speaker 5: was pitching in defense, and then they just needed to
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  Speaker 5: add a bat and they never did it last year,
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  Speaker 5: and they added Anthony Santander. So essentially the players are
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  Speaker 5: the ones that picked up ross Atkins on this one,
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  Speaker 5: because Anthony Santander didn't even play. But the trade to me,
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  Speaker 5: I think the trade for gabrielle Moreno, which looked terrible,
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  Speaker 5: where they traded Gabriel Moreno to the Diamondbacks and then
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  Speaker 5: he ended up going to the World Series. Blue Jay
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  Speaker 5: fans were up in arms, and ross Akins stayed the path.
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  Speaker 5: He knew Dalton Varshow was going to give them goal
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  Speaker 5: glove defense in center field. He knew what type of
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  Speaker 5: team they wanted to play around, and they extended Alejandro Kirk.
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  Speaker 5: He was able to extend obviously with ownership's approval. Vladimir Guerrero.
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  Speaker 5: They didn't go after bow. Is that gonna end up
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  Speaker 5: hurting him?
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  Speaker 3: Well?
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  Speaker 5: They fill in now with Andre Semenez, another goal glover
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  Speaker 5: like he built a team that is has his fingerprint
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  Speaker 5: on it. Only thing I don't like about this is
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  Speaker 5: he Schneids should get a longer extension. It's really not
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  Speaker 5: that long of an extension for a manager, But you
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  Speaker 5: know what, that's that's where we're at right now. Besides council,
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  Speaker 5: very few. I guess Dave Roberts's was long also, But
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  Speaker 5: besides those guys, not many guys are getting more than
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  Speaker 5: two maybe like a third year option contract.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, look at Kurtsuzuki, he got one year. That shows
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  Speaker 1: you the faith that Ardie Moreno has in him. But
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  Speaker 1: the Angels are a disaster anyway. I would like to see.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, Schneider be kind of tied to Atkins and
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  Speaker 1: extend him to two thousand and thirty one. It's funny
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  Speaker 1: we were talking about both of those guys, perhaps on
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  Speaker 1: the proverbial hot seat, but it was just a couple
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  Speaker 1: of years ago. I feel like you, guys, as you
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  Speaker 1: will start with you, that we're constantly talking about the
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  Speaker 1: window closing with Vladimir Geruro Junior and Dante or Bobaschet
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  Speaker 1: together right. Well, obviously Vladdie is there for the long
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  Speaker 1: haul and Bo is now a member of the New
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  Speaker 1: York Mets. What do you think was the biggest change
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  Speaker 1: for the Blue Jays in terms of being able to
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  Speaker 1: get to where they were when a couple of years
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  Speaker 1: ago it seemed like they were so in flux and
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  Speaker 1: here we are thinking they could have easily won the
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  Speaker 1: World Series last season.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, just stability, good pitching, the right moves, all of
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  Speaker 4: the above. And listen, Bo's not there anymore. Fine, they
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  Speaker 4: have Jimenez, they have a Kamoto, they have other things.
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  Speaker 4: You know, David Schneider, Ernie Cleman has stepped up for him,
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  Speaker 4: right so, But I think for some reason when they
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  Speaker 4: signed Bo to that extension, it just changed everything in
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  Speaker 4: this organization. The fan base, settled down and said, oh
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  Speaker 4: we got at least we have Vlad forever. It gave
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  Speaker 4: the organization confidence, and I think it just took them
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  Speaker 4: to that next level that the Vlad signing, along with
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  Speaker 4: the pitching now you know, Gosman, Bassett, Sures or Beaver,
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  Speaker 4: all the moves that they made along the way all
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  Speaker 4: helped you Savage coming up and being a stud I think.
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  Speaker 4: But the Vlad contract is what started it off and
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  Speaker 4: got this thing rolling in the right direction. And now listen,
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  Speaker 4: they're expected to make the playoffs again like they did
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  Speaker 4: last year. I just think it was the Vlad extension
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  Speaker 4: that got all this rolling. And now Schneider's off the
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  Speaker 4: hot seed, Atkins off the hot seed, and they can
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  Speaker 4: just go do their job, which they've done fairly well
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  Speaker 4: because they have made the playoffs a lot lately.
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  Speaker 3: I think. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I think it's one of those things too that people say, well,
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  Speaker 5: then everybody should extend the certain guy. Well, not that
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  Speaker 5: there was a cloud hanging over the fact that Vladdie
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  Speaker 5: would have been a free agent, but just the fact
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  Speaker 5: that it gives some type of stability to the fact that,
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  Speaker 5: you know, maybe there was some pressure taken off of
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  Speaker 5: George Springer, we don't know health wise all this stuff.
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  Speaker 5: George Springer had an incredible year after having some down
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  Speaker 5: years and making that contract look like whoa, this is
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  Speaker 5: legit while also adding his leadership. Alijnd Kirk ended up
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  Speaker 5: getting extended. Does Alijandra say yay or nay to that
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  Speaker 5: contract extension without Vladdie there?
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  Speaker 3: We'll never know.
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  Speaker 5: Does Dylan Ce say yes, I want to sign with Vladimir?
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  Speaker 5: Where you know where Vladimir Guerrero is going to be
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  Speaker 5: for a while. He's a transcendent type of star for
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  Speaker 5: the Blue Jays. Would he have been the same type
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  Speaker 5: of star for another team? I don't know, but I
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  Speaker 5: think there's rare times when a guy who was born
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  Speaker 5: in Canada because his dad was playing in Montreal, drafted
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  Speaker 5: by the Blue Jays, came up through the system, had
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  Speaker 5: some you know, flashes of really incredible superstar years, and
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  Speaker 5: then you extend him. I think the Blue Jays kind
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  Speaker 5: of took a little bit of a gamble hoping that
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  Speaker 5: he was going to be the guy that they thought
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  Speaker 5: he was, and then you just saw you saw him
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  Speaker 5: really take off in the playoffs. You almost hope he
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  Speaker 5: has a better year this year than he did last
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  Speaker 5: year during the regular season, because he's like, WHOA, I
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  Speaker 5: can really lock in during the playoffs?
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  Speaker 3: Can I do that? For one hundred and sixty two?
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  Speaker 5: If that's the case, you're talking about Vladdie as an
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  Speaker 5: MVP type of candidate for the next four or five
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  Speaker 5: years in a row. And that extension gives them a
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  Speaker 5: lot more stability along with the rest of the lineup saying, hey,
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  Speaker 5: you know what, we're going to have this identity, and
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  Speaker 5: that identity was low, strikeout, lots of contact and see
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  Speaker 5: what happens, and everybody saw it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if it was a recency bias, but
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  Speaker 1: last year's World Series was the World Series I've ever seen.
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  Speaker 1: It's exactly what you wanted. Game seven, coming down to
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  Speaker 1: the last thing. A j are the Toronto Blue Jays
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  Speaker 1: the team to beat in the American League? Who is
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  Speaker 1: better than them right now on paper going into this season?
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  Speaker 4: Honestly, I mean the Mariners would make the case. The
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  Speaker 4: Yankees would make the case just because they had the
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  Speaker 4: same amount of wins last year. But I think the
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  Speaker 4: Blue Jays if they everything, I can't. This is what's
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  Speaker 4: funny about baseball. Everything lines up. Everyone stays healthy, right,
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  Speaker 4: It's like, yeah, it's always if everyone stays healthy.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I think the Yankees, Blue Jays and Mariners.
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  Speaker 4: Are probably the pride of the of the American League
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  Speaker 4: for me, and I think you right now, because the
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  Speaker 4: Blue Jays are the way they played in the postseason,
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  Speaker 4: you'd have to put them number one.
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  Speaker 1: I agree, They're not the only ones in terms of
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  Speaker 1: Russ Atkins and John Schneider Eric that got an extension. Recently,
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  Speaker 1: the Phillies have also extended Christopher Sanchez. This is not
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  Speaker 1: his first extension either, they extended him back in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty two, but good on him. His new deal essentially
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  Speaker 1: has the Phillies picking up his old club options in
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  Speaker 1: twenty and twenty nine and two thirty tomes are Lucky, who,
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  Speaker 1: of course covers the Phillies plus adding thirty million per
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  Speaker 1: season in thirty one and thirty two and a thirty
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  Speaker 1: three club option worth forty four and a half million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting ek because the Phillies didn't have to do this
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  Speaker 1: at that time, but they did. What do you make
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  Speaker 1: in the move?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I think I think if both if both
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  Speaker 5: parties are amicable in this, like if Christopher Sanchez says yes,
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  Speaker 5: I would love that that is thirty million is less
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  Speaker 5: than you know a lot of pitchers that some people
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  Speaker 5: say today I'm better than then he saying, okay, I'll
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  Speaker 5: take a little bit off the table for the guarantee
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  Speaker 5: that I get this money. So I love it for
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  Speaker 5: I love it for Christopher Sanchez. I love that he
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  Speaker 5: was able to you know, really his first full season
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  Speaker 5: of not being like in flux.
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  Speaker 3: Even in twenty four.
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  Speaker 5: There was talk Clowd, you know, you don't know where
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  Speaker 5: he's gonna fit in in a rotation. He definitely has
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  Speaker 5: solidified his spot in a rotation, but he was coming
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  Speaker 5: off with twenty three where he had you know, he
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  Speaker 5: had some time where it was like rotation triple a bullpen.
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  Speaker 5: And so his career in the big leagues, while he
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  Speaker 5: has some years of service, is kind of young as
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  Speaker 5: a solidified guy on this rotation, and so for him,
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  Speaker 5: it's like, sure, that's a recency bias for him. He's like,
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  Speaker 5: he's thinking, I remember what he was like to get
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  Speaker 5: sent down in twenty twenty two, in twenty twenty three
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  Speaker 5: and say well, I don't think I deserved it, and
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  Speaker 5: now they're dangling thirty million dollars out there for you
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  Speaker 5: per year. I think it's a I think it's a
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  Speaker 5: great move for him, and I think it's also a
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  Speaker 5: good move for the Phillies because you see what if
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  Speaker 5: he becomes that ace, that the money that he could
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  Speaker 5: come in, you know you're gonna have to and you
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  Speaker 5: need an ace because Nola's getting older. Wheeler's contracts ending
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  Speaker 5: and he said he's not playing after this contract. You
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  Speaker 5: don't know what Andrew Paynter is going to be. Jesus
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  Speaker 5: Lozarda has already extended. So you have two really good
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  Speaker 5: lefties that have some stability because they know if they
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  Speaker 5: get hurt, they're still paid. But the Phillies also know
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  Speaker 5: they have two really good lefties in their rotation for
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  Speaker 5: a while.
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  Speaker 1: AJ resident GM on foul Territory Jim Bowden said that
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  Speaker 1: this is setting a horrible precedent because the Phillies didn't
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  Speaker 1: need to do it at this time. He tweeted that
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  Speaker 1: the way that the Phillies reworked the contract of Sanchez
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  Speaker 1: sets a horrible precedent for teams. Great for Sanchez, to
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  Speaker 1: Ek's point, generous of the Phillies, but now a player
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  Speaker 1: that has far outperformed has agreed upon contract might ask
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  Speaker 1: his club to do the same. SXM eighty nine top
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  Speaker 1: of the r that's he is promoting his show. But anyway,
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  Speaker 1: the point is, do you agree with Jim that this
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  Speaker 1: is a terrible precedent. I mean, obviously team friendly to
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  Speaker 1: a certain extent. However, it's good for the player to
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  Speaker 1: get that security, get the bag when you can. What
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  Speaker 1: do you make of it?
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  Speaker 2: Why is this bad?
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  Speaker 4: This is bad for Jim Bowden because he was a
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  Speaker 4: former GM and he wants every team to get a
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  Speaker 4: cheap deal. But man, good for the Phillies for recognizing
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  Speaker 4: a guy that they won in their rotation for the
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  Speaker 4: next how many ever years and they get it done.
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  Speaker 4: I don't understand how this is bad for anyone other
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  Speaker 4: than I don't know who this is bad for other
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  Speaker 4: than other.
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  Speaker 2: Gms, But that's their own problem.
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  Speaker 4: If they got a guy that wants to do this
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  Speaker 4: on their organization, then go do this.
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  Speaker 2: And you have an owner that's willing to do this.
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  Speaker 2: I don't ever understood this.
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  Speaker 4: This guy just signed a deal for you know, that
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  Speaker 4: sets his family up for the rest of his life
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  Speaker 4: and his family's family up for the rest of their life.
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  Speaker 2: Why is this bad? This is good? This is what
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  Speaker 2: we want in baseball.
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  Speaker 4: We want guys that will stay with an organization for
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  Speaker 4: a long time. Guess what the Phillies just guarantee Christopher
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  Speaker 4: Sanchez if he wants to be a Philadelphia Philly to
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  Speaker 4: what twenty thirty two, twenty thirty three. I think it
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  Speaker 4: goes to that's seven more years that they have him
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  Speaker 4: locked in, and we don't know what's gonna happen with
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  Speaker 4: the CBA. So Sanchez is dang, you guys are offering
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  Speaker 4: this much money and the Phillies say, hey, we have
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  Speaker 4: this money.
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  Speaker 2: How is this bad? It's this isn't going to be
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  Speaker 2: every team.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, listen, if every team was going to do this,
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  Speaker 4: the Pirates, the Marlins, the you know whoever, the Rockies,
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  Speaker 4: they don't do these things.
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  Speaker 2: But the Phillies did. So good for the Phillies.
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  Speaker 4: This is good for the game, This is good for
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  Speaker 4: Christopher Sanchez, and this is good for the Philly fans.
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  Speaker 1: I agree with you that you mentioned. You ended there
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  Speaker 1: aj with this is good for the Phillies fans. Eric,
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  Speaker 1: you live in Philadelphia. You know what those fan bases like.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what is it like? What does it say
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  Speaker 1: to these fans like, hey, we're willing to spend the
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  Speaker 1: money and keep arguably our race in a Phillies uniform
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  Speaker 1: for the next six seven years.
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  Speaker 5: It says that they're not just willing to do it
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  Speaker 5: for a little while. They've been willing to spend the
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  Speaker 5: money for a minute now, you know, ever since they
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  Speaker 5: brought in Harper, then Castianos, then Schwarber, then Trey Turner,
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  Speaker 5: like it was like almost Boba Schett. This offseason, the
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  Speaker 5: Phillies are in a spending mode. Middleton. Middleton is an
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  Speaker 5: owner who wants a ring, and he's he's willing to
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  Speaker 5: go out there and continue to spend. This signifies that
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  Speaker 5: the fact that they went and extended Hayes, Loose Lozardo
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  Speaker 5: not that long after Ranger Suarez, who was a successful
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  Speaker 5: pitcher for the Phillies, signed and exten signed a contract
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  Speaker 5: with the Red Sox. They got Hayes, Louiselizardo locked up,
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  Speaker 5: Now they have Christopher Sanchez locked up. Philly fans are
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  Speaker 5: gonna say, Okay, we're gonna still have pitching. Yeah, some
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  Speaker 5: of these some of these stars are gonna age. Trey
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  Speaker 5: Turner's gonna age. Bryce Harper is going to age. They
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  Speaker 5: are the two with the really the longest contracts, So
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  Speaker 5: it shows Philly fans that they're not just going to
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  Speaker 5: take an abrupt twoenty thirteen hiatus from making the playoffs, like, ah,
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  Speaker 5: we just can't you know, we have all these aging stars.
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  Speaker 5: We're not gonna make any moves. And then they brought
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  Speaker 5: in some some guys in the front office that, in
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  Speaker 5: my opinion, made some brutal moves that that set the
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  Speaker 5: organization back. But I think John Middleton is saying, this
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  Speaker 5: is what's going to be the future outlook for the Phillies,
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  Speaker 5: and we're going to continue to try to win by
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  Speaker 5: spending money, and Philly fans are going to continue to
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  Speaker 1: The regular season opener is just days away. It's a
• 17:22
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• 17:25
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• 17:32
  Speaker 1: to talk to you about in terms of players being
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: optioned to at least begin the regular season. First of all,
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: any surprises that perhaps stick out to you, EK will
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: start with you. Dylan Cruz, Bryce Eldridge, Hisan Kim, Christian
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Campbell of the Socks. Anybody kind of stick out.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: To you, come in. I'm gonna take the easiest one.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: Connor Griffin.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: Connor Griffin, Yeah, that's.
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: That's not fair.
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: Like to me, while he may not have had the
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: spring training that they wanted them to have wanted to have,
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: you look into his numbers and you go, okay, like
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: what if he had hit four hundred, would this have
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: been different? Would this have been a you know, would
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: they have sent him? And then the question would have been, well,
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: who cares what he hit in spring training? So when
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: you bring up stats, I just have a hard time saying, okay,
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: like he should have made the team or he shouldn't
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: have made the team. To me, the question has to
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: be the Pirates clearly want to win. The Pirates went
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: out and they added offense. They didn't add offense for
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: like five six year transition here, No, they added offense
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: for this season and possibly next season. And so is
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: Connor Griffin better than Nick Gonzalez Triolo at short like
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: whatever that's going to be at shortstop? Is he one
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: of the best nine guys that they can put out there?
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: And if he is, to me, I think he should
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: have been on this roster. And I hope it's nothing else.
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: I hope there's nothing else that you know went into
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: this decision. But to me, if they don't believe that,
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: then who cares what he did in spring training?
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: Tell him beforehand?
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: Hey, you know what, we don't see you as somebody
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: that's ready to be in the big biges.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: Are you talking about just the manipulation of the contract
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: in terms of that type of thing? Is that what
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: you mean are you talking about? I mean, it's a
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: lot to put on a nineteen year old though, right AJ.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, well, Eric, let me allow you to finish
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: your thought there. I mean, what do you mean by that?
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: You hope that?
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: I just mean, like, I hope there wasn't contract extension
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: talks that weren't agreed upon. I hope there wasn't, you know,
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: some type of service manipulation so they can have him
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: for another year. I hope there wasn't some of the
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: old tricks that I think have kind of been mitigated
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: against because of well it's in the CBA, I think things.
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: You know, there's incentives to call up the best players.
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: I just hope there's not something else something like that
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: going on that's like, oh, man, like really like he's
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: not obviously I don't see him every day. But I
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: also don't sit there and go, oh, the Pirates, they
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: make so many good moves. We talked to Babba Chandler.
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: They called him up. He was a starter's entire career
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: and they call him up to throw out of the bullpen.
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: And he kind of hinted like, oh, he's got to
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: earn it. He was kind of told that he's got
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: to earn it.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: What. No, he's a starter. He's going to be a
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: starter for you for a long time. What are you doing?
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: So I go into the situation going, is this everything?
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: Are we getting all the information? Because I could care
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: less about spring training stats.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: I agree with that, Aj. Is it too much to
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: ask of a nineteen year old kid to come up?
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, you met him, you talked to him when
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: you were at Pirates camp. Is the maturity there? What
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: do you make of him starting the season at least
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: to begin with in Triple A.
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: I think the Pirates needed to put him as their
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: shortstop and opening a shortstop. I mean, I've said that,
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: I'll be on the record saying that I think that
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: this is not a Chris Bryant situation for me, this
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: is a I don't know why he's not their starting shortstop.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: If he's going to be their Listen, and here's what's
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: going to happen.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: We all know this.
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: He goes, he's going to go down to Triple A,
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: more than likely it's going to be freezing. He's going
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: to get off to a decent start in a month,
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: then they're going to call him up, and then they're
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: going to say it wasn't service time manipulation. It was
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: he just needed to get better because he hit one
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: eighty in spring training. I don't care about the spring
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: training stats. If the Pirates are really trying to make
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: a run and trying to win their division and trying
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: to make the playoffs like they say they are, for me,
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: Connor Griffin should be on the team.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Okay, fair enough. Anybody else, Guys that kind of stands
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: out to you, I'll read the list.
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: I don't.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: I don't expect you to have it off the top
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: of your head. Christian Campbell of the Red Sox. This
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: is a kid eka that they gave a pretty decent
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: extension to. It was like forty million or something a
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: couple of years ago, and he is starting the season
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: in Triple A. Jason Domingez, the Martian Justinson Garcia also
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: of the Pirates. Anybody else, stick out.
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: To you one thing more with Connor Griffin before you
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: go there, because Christian Campbell he signed a eight year,
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: sixty million dollars deal just in spring training last year
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: and now he's changed positions and he's back in Triple A.
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: To me with Connor Griffin too, he's going down to
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: Triple A to do what nothing against Triple A pitchers.
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: I played in Triple A for a long time. The
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: best pitching you're gonna see is gonna be in April,
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: because there's guys that are like, oh, we don't know
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: we have a spot forty man, blah blah blah. You're
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: gonna see better pitching, but in general, you're gonna see
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: ninety to ninety four aw rs and you're just going
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: to get guys throwing out of the bullpen that may
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: throw ninety six to ninety eight. You don't know where
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: it goes. You don't control the zone very well, and
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: you you build up numbers or if he doesn't do well,
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: so to me, it doesn't look good for Conor Griffin.
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: So yes, can he develop? Yes, you can learn. You
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: can learn a lot of things if you have like
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: veteran guys that are there that can help him make
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: that transition. But it just seems it seems like I
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: watch for a team that wants to win. But back
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: to the list, back to the list. I have to
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: pull the list back up. But to me, it's it's
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: Jason Dominguz, Jason Domingaz. If you go by numbers, you
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: go wholl This guy had an incredible spring training as
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: a player. You're sitting there going, I had an incredible
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: spring training. So did I really have never have a shot?
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: As soon as they brought Cody Bellinger back in, who
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: was a late sign right before camp, Like, is that
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: when you know my ticket to Triple A was?
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: Pitt was punched.
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: Because Jason Domingaz his his issues. His issues were he
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: couldn't hit right handed. Okay, he he got quite a
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: few at bats against lefties. He did well. So the
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: numbers are there, Like what does that mean? The biggest
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: thing is he's never really had setbacks in the sense
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: that you know, he was the Martian he got a
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: record signing bonus. They thought he was gonna be the
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: next Mickey Man or even our own pinstriped territory. Derek
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: Lewandowski was like, oh my gosh, Jason Domingoz is gonna
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: be unbelieved. Reality is, you have to do it in
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: the big leagues, and when you're in the bright stage
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: of New York, you don't get four hundred at bats
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: to figure it out. And we swing it back to
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: Connor Griffin. The Pirates can give Connor Griffin four hundred
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: at bats to figure it out, and that's where he
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: should be figuring it out in the big leagues.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: For me, it's still in Cruise.
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: Dylan Cruz was about the second pick overall in the
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: draft a couple of years ago out LSU behind Paul Skeans.
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: And he's ever hitting the big leagues and from what
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: I've heard from people, he won't make adjustments. There's adjustments
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: that need to be made. They brought in different hitting coaches,
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: they brought in more of a drive line attitude to him,
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: and he needs to Maybe they're talking about making him
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: swing changes and this and that, and he hasn't done that,
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: and he has been He's the one Christian Campbell. He's
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: never making this team. So that's not a disappointment. He's
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: got his money. That's why you signed these extensions because
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: if it doesn't work out, you still have sixty million
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: dollars in the bank, right But for me, it's still
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: and Cruse. Dylan Cruz was supposed to be the guy
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: who was the face of the Nats franchise going forward,
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: and it hasn't worked out.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: It's become James Wood and c. J. Abrams. So for me,
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: it's still in Cruise.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean real quick on Cruz.
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: I think it's part of a generation of players that
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: have said, you know what, the organizations go, Yeah, Triple
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: A is not as good, We're gonna call you up
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: to the big leagues. And you're talking about like Hall
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: of famers that got called up to the big leagues
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: without any minor league time, and you know, right around
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: the league. Now you're talking about Dylan Cruise, Wyatt Langford.
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: Obviously Paul Schemes is working out, it's gonna be He's
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: gonna be legit. But very rarely do you not need
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: some seasoning in the big in the minor leagues. So
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: I'm kind of contradicting what I said about Connor Griffin
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: when I say that, But there's like there's history that
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: like it takes a little bit to Not everybody has
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: the same trajectory just because they were awesome in college.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: I think it depends too on what your big league
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: club is. There's certain guys that are going to toil
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: away in the minor league because there's people blocking them
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: in the big leagues. There's no reason Connor Griffin shouldn't
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: be the starting shortstop for the Pittsburgh Pirates to start
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  Speaker 1: Look out, guys, you never know when you're gonna get
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• 27:18
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• 27:19
  Speaker 1: is swinging right, he's basically timing the picture. In the
• 27:22
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• 27:25
  Speaker 1: and the Marsian almost gets drilled by a bat. Scary,
• 27:31
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• 27:32
  Speaker 5: Glad he had an appercut. Glad he was working on
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: getting that back hip into it, because had he gone
• 27:38
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  Speaker 3: Would have been cooked.
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  Speaker 2: He wanted to.
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: He wanted to.
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: He wanted to get on that first bus back. There's
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: usually first buses back, or there's you know, a ride. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: He goes rolling out of there. That could have been
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: just sent down.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: That is Uh, that's one way to get on the
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: early bus. I've been hit on a baseball field five times,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: four with the ball, one with the bat. Two of
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: the balls that hit me hit me in the head,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: one was in the back, one was on the hand,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: and then I got hit with Carlos Gonzalez's bat on
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: the left side. Have you guys, I mean, you're pitch
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: your catchers, so you're constantly getting hit in the face
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: and the mask and all the things. But have you
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: almost been hit by a like how many times you've
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: been hitting in the head with the backswing.
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: I mean it happened a lot. I mean not a lot,
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: but it happened. It happened a few times a year. Yeah,
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: it wasn't that stuff happens. I've seen a guy actually
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: seen a guy get hit in the face. I don't,
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: I don't. I actually did see a guy get hit
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: in the face by a bat. I forget who it was,
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: but I did see that happen, and it wasn't good.
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: They broke their I don't want to say they broke
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: their nose or bust at their lip or something. So
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: I actually have seen this happen. It was It was crazy.
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: It was kind of the same thing. They weren't paying
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: attention and the guy swung and didn't realize with someone
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: behind him and hit them. It happens. It's not good,
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: but yeah, this stuff happens. It's scary world out there.
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: Be careful. You gotta, as I tell my son, you
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: gotta have situational awareness on what's going down.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: I make sure.
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: I mean every time there was anyone with a bad
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: I was always walking around like And that's why.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: I'm glad that they did put the nets up. I
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: know ek people had differing opinions of putting nets up
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: along the baselines, but there's so many people that go
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: to games that are not paying attention to what's happening
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: on the field, and they have little kids down there.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: They're not paying attention. There's somebody that obviously does not
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: have catlike reflexes that can take a screaming line drive
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: right to the noggin and it could kill somebody. I'm
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: glad that they have the nets. Have you seen anything
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: like that on the field, Eric, or you know, if
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: someone got hit with the backswing or whatever.
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: The video when we talked about this, the video of
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: Ryan Braun swinging on the top of the dugout and
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: he caught Jean Sigura back when they were both playing
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: together with the braid like the Brewers like that one was,
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: but I wasn't. I wasn't there live for it. So no,
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: I've never seen anybody get hit like that. But fans,
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: you talk about the nets, man, I'll never forget one.
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: In Indianapolis, I was playing Triple A and a mom
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: got hit in the side of the head and like
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: immediately she projectile vomited and she had her kids there,
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: Like it was just an awful scene that every like.
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: It still gives me chills to think about. But we
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: also talk about all your injuries. Aj got hit one
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: hundred and twenty nine times a lot, and you're talking
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: about the four times you got hit in the hand.
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: He got one hundred and twenty nine times. That's a
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: lot of baseball.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: That is. That's a lot. That's a lot. And I'm
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: not trying to compare my injury stage. It is by
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: any stretch of the imagination. But I also was not
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: suited up and all four tiersome. Here's a fun fact
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: for you boys. All four times I got hit with
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: the ball were all in the San Francisco visiting well,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: all four times. So that is a death a death track. No,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: I was on the air, I mean.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: Sometimes didn't like the Dodgers. They didn't like the Dodgers Rogers.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I was also with the Rockies too, so
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: it was like an NL West thing as well. But yeah,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: that's crazy. Remember when Chris, my husband, got hit in
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: the face with the ball ninety three miles an hour
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: fastball he was he was playing for the Diamondbacks and
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: a pitcher. It was like garbage time. Diamondbacks were up
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: huge and this kid comes in, has no idea where
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: it's going, hit him right here, broke three of his teeth.
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: He had.
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  Speaker 1: He had to cut out a huge piece of his lip.
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  Speaker 1: That was That was a good time. That was a
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  Speaker 1: good time. Anyway, Moving on same thing, Jeremy Meyer, our director, saying,
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  Speaker 1: in here a producer. Same on the tea box. No
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  Speaker 1: drivers to the Chicklets watch out, don't stand in people's backswing,
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  Speaker 1: all right, Ryan Divish, who covers the Mariners. A statement
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  Speaker 1: from Randy a Rosa Renna. I understand that with opening
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  Speaker 1: day a few days away, I don't want it to
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: be a distraction call. And I have talked and I
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  Speaker 1: apologize for what I said after the game. Nothing in
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  Speaker 1: the WBC takes away from the fact that we are
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  Speaker 1: brothers and teammates. He's family, and we are both focused
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  Speaker 1: on helping the Mariners win the World Series. This comes
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: off of the cuff of Randy Arozarena wanting to shake
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  Speaker 1: Cal Raley's hand and he said, no, nay on today.
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  Speaker 1: So they've they've squashed this.
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  Speaker 2: He was told to say this.
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  Speaker 3: Let's be honest.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure you didn't say this out of nowhere. He
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: was told to say this because, again, like I said earlier,
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: the guys who they can trade, they can trade Randy Roserena,
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: guess who they ain't trading. Cal Rowlin, guess who they
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: I mean. Let's be honest, this is it Randy and
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: Cal talk. They had already talked. I don't understand why
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  Speaker 4: this became such a big deal because it only became
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: a big deal because Randy said some things about Cal
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  Speaker 4: later on that he didn't need to say after the
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: whole thing, and Cal told him not to do it.
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: He told Naylor not to do it. Now, Naylor handled
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: it better by making a joke out of it. Randy
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  Speaker 4: then proceeded to say some bad things about Cal. I mean,
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: we all love Randy's personality, we all love the fun
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: times he has.
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  Speaker 2: On the field.
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  Speaker 4: But you don't, I don't care what happens. You don't
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  Speaker 4: cuss out a teammate after anything.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 4: You take the team in inside the locker room and
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: you talk to him when you get back to Mariners camp.
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  Speaker 4: You handle it internally. You don't cuss him out in
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  Speaker 4: front of the world, So I think did. Randy was told, hey,
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  Speaker 4: we need to squash this because even when he went
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: back to Marrinors camp, he kept us in going. So
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  Speaker 4: it's over now. Hopefully we don't have to talk about
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: it again and the Mirrors can just go try to
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: get to the World series for the first time in
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: their existence.
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  Speaker 3: It will be a distraction.
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  Speaker 5: Stop like they're going to play. Randy wants to play
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: for his free agent year. Cal is going to do
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: Cal things. It won't be a distraction.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: Okay, this is scary. I didn't know about this. I
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: don't think many people knew about this, guys. But MLB
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: dot COM's Brian McTaggart, who covers the Houston Astros, wrote
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: an article that said Carlos Correa and his son nearly
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: drowned in a lake last summer. That's insane. He nearly
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: drowned on a Minnesota lake last summer. His brush with
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: death has brought him closer to his faith and has
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: given him a new calling. I promise you, this is
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: a quote. I promise you that if you saved me
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: from this one, I will serve you, and I will
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: serve you forever. So apparently he has started organizing aj
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: Bible study at his home last offseason. He's delivering a
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: thirty minute sermon at a retirement home in December in
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: front of you know, twenty to twenty five people that'll
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: do it. You know, when you have a brush with death,
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: especially when your child is involved, that's got to give
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: you some perspective.
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  Speaker 4: No, yeah, one hundred percent. I'm never going to knock
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  Speaker 4: anyone faith or what they do or good for you.
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: Carlos Korea, I'm sure it was a scary incident. Didn't
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: DJ Kali the rapper, didn't he have something like this,
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: have one on a jet ski and he also did
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: this something like this. I thought it was I thought
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: I saw a story about something like that where he
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: almost died on a jet ski and he kind of
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: did the same thing. So good for you, Carlos Korea.
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: It's weird we just now are hearing about this later almost,
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: you know, a year later.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever.
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: And then also wear your life jacket. People, wear your
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: life jacket. Make sure you have a life jacket on.
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: And make sure your children, which I believe Carlos Is
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: did have one on. Make sure you wear your life jacket.
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: And there are people around that are paying attention to
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: what's happening in the wad.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: So Korea managed to reach booeye Ek, but slipped off
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: of the booy he fell under the water. This is
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: again according to the article by Brian McTaggart. He fell
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: under the water and grabbed the chain and during his
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: left hand with Kylo's weight on his shoulder. Kylo is
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: his oldest son. By the way, Koreas switched to his
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: right hand, then his left, and back to his right.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's terrifying. To stay above the water.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: He yelled toward the boat for help. It was his
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: last gasp. I can't think of a more horrific death
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: any anything that your child is involved in, obviously, but
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: I can't think of a more horrific death than drowning
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: or perhaps being you know burned to death, but imagine
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: the terror in Carlos's mind, in his son's mind, and
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: whoever was watching. That'll make you rethink some things.
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  Speaker 3: I can't.
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  Speaker 5: I can't imagine it. I'm glad they're safe. I'm glad
• 36:48
  Speaker 5: it brought him closer to the Lord. I'm glad it
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: put him in a spot where he's appreciating you know,
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: every day that he has. And you know, as a
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: veteran on a team, you start making impact on different
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: people on your team when you're you're really intentional about everything,
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: intentional about your relationships. So you know, there's a positive
• 37:11
  Speaker 5: that came out of this, and that's it for him.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: He also talked about in the article, spoke of the
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: challenges you guys he endured as a player, fracturing his
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: ankle in two places in the minor leagues in twenty fourteen,
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: and how that injury later caused both the Giants and
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: the Mets to back out of mega deals with him.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: Seven years later, he wound up signing with the Twins
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: after leaving the Astros at the end of the twenty
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: twenty one season. Obviously, he is back with the Stros.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: I imagine he'd finish his career there. I'm just happy
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: that he's okay, and I'm happy that his son is okay.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: In case you missed it, a big week for Andrew Painter.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: He makes the Phillies opening day roster. He gets engaged
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: in the same week his fiance Shelby said, we both
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: got promoted this week. So good for these guys. Very
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: nice week for Andrew Painter and his future bride Shelby.
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: It's a big weekj Congratulations in.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Your in your life, that's the biggest week.
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: Uh week? Sure?
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: Sure, Like maybe.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: You had a baby in the same week that you
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: got a hole in one. I don't know.
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: It's got to be some It's just kids. Just kids birth,
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: that's it.
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: It's kids kid's birth, is I mean? But then you
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: have more than one, so then you've got to pick
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: a favorite.
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: So sure everyone a favorite for him and then he
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: can pick my favorite.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: That's tough though for you though, because you have three
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: to choose from. By the way, congratulations to Jeremy Myers
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: Iowa Hawk Eyes. They beat A. J. Pearson University of
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: Florida Gators in a thriller A J seventy three to
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: seventy two. What happened.
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: Uh, Iowa made shots when they had to. They played better.
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: That's usually what happens to Lona when you lose in
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: these games. The other team launches threes and makes them
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: and they play better. Congratulations Iowa.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I wouldn't know what that's like. I went through
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: Northy Colorado. We're never in the tournament, all right, guys,
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: have a great night. Scott Brom's back tomorrow. Appelad