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Biggest problem for each contender, Yordan is back! Mets promote Tong, Rangers lose Eovaldi · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: M nice day to talk baseball in Alabama. Look at
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  Speaker 1: at video bombing right at the top of the show
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  Speaker 1: on national television. Guys, yeah, on national television.
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  Speaker 2: There you go. So your wife goes where you're at.
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  Speaker 2: Hope your wife knows where you're at. She knows.
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  Speaker 1: Now, some good fair harbor on you, Bron Persinski krats
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  Speaker 1: with you. We're excited for some good guests later today,
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  Speaker 1: so we look forward to that. We'll hit some good
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  Speaker 1: stuff at the top. I want to do my shoutouts
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  Speaker 1: again because we're not going to have time for all
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  Speaker 1: of these. I was telling aj about Bryce terrang Kratz.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know how many home runs he has this month?
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  Speaker 1: You probably heard me already eleven maybe not nine. Do
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  Speaker 1: you know how many home runs he had entering this month,
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  Speaker 1: three six, and the prior two years it was six
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  Speaker 1: and seven homers. So he's done more damage this month
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  Speaker 1: basically than his entire career. That's cool.
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  Speaker 2: I meantimes it just click Scott.
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  Speaker 1: He does a lot of other things. Well, if he's
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  Speaker 1: got pomp.
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  Speaker 2: Now he's leading the charge for the brewker that's where
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  Speaker 2: they got the best record in baseball. One of many
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  Speaker 2: reasons they pitch they played defense, and they can swing
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  Speaker 2: a little better than people give them credit for. And
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  Speaker 2: they have a little more pop I think than people.
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  Speaker 2: How many homers is Christian? Christianlis always has thirty, doesn't
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  Speaker 2: he twenty eight or twenty nine?
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  Speaker 1: Contraras has really picked it picked it up. That's why
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  Speaker 1: when you look at that King Vaughan, Yeah, when you
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  Speaker 1: look at the home run number for the year, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you're probably better off looking at it, say in the
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  Speaker 1: second half or over a shorter period of time, to
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  Speaker 1: see what that looks like. So props to Bryce best
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  Speaker 1: trade pick up so far. I've got a name for.
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  Speaker 2: You, Bryce Best. I mean Andrew Vaughn's got to be
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  Speaker 2: high in the list.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, around the deadline. I wasn't thinking about that, but
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  Speaker 1: you're right. Ramon Lariano, Oh yeah, he's Grand Slam yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Kratz.
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  Speaker 1: He's been insane for them. He's got I think almost
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  Speaker 1: a seven hundred slugging percentage in the last few weeks
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  Speaker 1: since he joined them. That's good.
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  Speaker 2: He's gonna play and.
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  Speaker 3: Now he's gonna screw around and get at bats against righties.
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  Speaker 3: They're not pinch hitting for him when they bring a
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  Speaker 3: righty in like somehow they have romanely around up and
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  Speaker 3: Gavin Sheets in the same lineup, and they're mixing in
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  Speaker 3: O'Hearn at bats like it was a huge pickup. That's
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  Speaker 3: clam glam yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Slam Diego, Slam diego. It was a good game.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to it later on and then one more.
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  Speaker 1: This is going to lead into our first topic. Do
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  Speaker 1: you know who returned yesterday and looked really good starting
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  Speaker 1: pitcher was badly needed for this team that year. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Kyle Bradish.
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  Speaker 2: But I mean it's too little, too late.
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  Speaker 1: I know. I'm just saying good to see him back.
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  Speaker 2: Level on an individual Thursday, and he was you saw, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he was in the locker and he was excited to
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  Speaker 2: be able to pitch this year.
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  Speaker 1: Bradish. Trevor Rodgers, your won two punch. Maybe Grace come
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  Speaker 1: comes back. I'd still pick up a starter or two
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  Speaker 1: in the off season. But anyway, walking back to him,
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  Speaker 1: Chicano will be a free agent again. He gone, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we'll see, they'll have some Hopefully they take it seriously
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  Speaker 1: this time around, and someone else is back. Let's charge
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  Speaker 1: them ount charge. It had been one hundred games. You're down.
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  Speaker 1: Alparez returns for the Astros. Over two, a couple of
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  Speaker 1: walks walked in his first trip to the plate. That
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  Speaker 1: doesn't matter. He's back and he was raking for his
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  Speaker 1: several games in the minor leagues the way up, how
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  Speaker 1: big this is for them?
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  Speaker 3: Here?
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  Speaker 2: Do you know? You don't need the fact that it's
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  Speaker 2: our opening salvo on the show is tells you how
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  Speaker 2: big it is for the Astros. Then when they give
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  Speaker 2: Jake Myers back, I don't think Parades is probably coming
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  Speaker 2: back this year because his hamstring tear poll was a
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  Speaker 2: lot worse than they mentioned, like Shaun case style, But
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't really matter. It's his presence in that lineup.
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  Speaker 2: His presence in the lineup changes a lot of things. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I know they lost yesterday. It was one game, but
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  Speaker 2: it's just a different lineup because they don't have that
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  Speaker 2: lefty thumper when he's not in there, and they're very
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  Speaker 2: right hand heavy. Now he's back, they have the lefty
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  Speaker 2: dumper to break up the right He's what you need.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, Kratz Parates is still hinting how to
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  Speaker 1: comeback because he chose not to go with surgery and
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  Speaker 1: to rehabit to give that outside chance of returning, So
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  Speaker 1: I'm just throwing that out there. He's apparently been putting
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  Speaker 1: stuff out on socials. On Monday, a couple of days ago,
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  Speaker 1: he reposted a friend's photo of the news of his
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  Speaker 1: season ending injury on his Instagram story, with the caption
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  Speaker 1: coming soon Stronger Pradies.
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  Speaker 3: That's great. I mean, it's great for the Astros, but
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean, you gotta you gotta make
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  Speaker 3: sure you're back. Is eighty percent of Eastcoc parades better
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  Speaker 3: than one hundred percent of whoever else they're gonna put
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  Speaker 3: out there. I don't know, probably maybe, maybe big pinch.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna Kirk Gibson at bat off the bench EASTOC
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  Speaker 3: Parades pull hooks one into the Crawford boxes and the playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: He has the ability to They gotta make it first.
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  Speaker 3: They gotta make it, and they really need They're not
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  Speaker 3: gonna get that buy, but they really need to be
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  Speaker 3: able to have their ducks in a row because of
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  Speaker 3: the fact that their bullpen is much shorter. But we're
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  Speaker 3: not talking about playoff chances. We're talking about your Don Alvarez.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so your lineup Bangrafts against Righty's Jeremy Pan, you're
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  Speaker 1: leading off great year. Carlos kra in.
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  Speaker 2: The two spot hot since he got to Houston.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, Jose al two Bay in the spot. DH, you're
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  Speaker 1: down Alvarez or you're done d H and Jose in
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  Speaker 1: the outfield whatever they're doing there by the way, I
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  Speaker 1: mean you're done. You're pretty much going to h right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: more than likely. Yeah, or you would hope he mostly DHS,
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  Speaker 1: Christian Walker, nop he's been better. He has been better.
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  Speaker 1: Heyzus Sanchez after the.
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  Speaker 2: Opra, Now you got five hits I did last week?
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  Speaker 1: Ye, Ninds good hitting catching.
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  Speaker 2: Him and Karatini, Kartini.
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  Speaker 1: And Kartini, Yeah, kind of a wash. And then Dubon
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  Speaker 1: and Meltain. It's a pretty good lineup.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: When's Jake Myers come back? I don't know his timetable
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  Speaker 2: because he's having a great year.
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  Speaker 1: He was Rake Myers and then I know they lost
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  Speaker 1: yesterday to the Rockies six to one. But you've got
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  Speaker 1: Hunter Brown, Franbervaldez if you catch him in a good
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  Speaker 1: time period, which which is usually the case up until recently.
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  Speaker 1: How do we feel about this team with jord On?
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  Speaker 2: I think they're better, They're still in first place, which
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  Speaker 2: is the crazy thing. They're They're just hanging on to
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  Speaker 2: first place. It's like everyone's like, oh, the Mariners are
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  Speaker 2: just gonna blow past them. It hasn't happened. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: every it's like every time the askers answers are two
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  Speaker 2: up in the lost column.
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  Speaker 1: Still they keep losing at the same time.
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  Speaker 2: That's it's funny they win the same time, they lose
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  Speaker 2: at the same time. Right, So how do I feel
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  Speaker 2: about it? I mean, I think that they're gonna get
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  Speaker 2: in now. The question is if they win the division,
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  Speaker 2: then they got to play some other teams. Uh, they
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  Speaker 2: lose that by They're pitching is a little short with
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  Speaker 2: a bullpen especially, I don't know. But Houston, I'm not counting,
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  Speaker 2: ever counting out Houston until someone buries them. That's it.
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  Speaker 3: They're not variable. They're not gonna be variable, especially with
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  Speaker 3: with or done. That's a that's a great lineup on paper,
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  Speaker 3: but you take Jordan out of that lineup. Why was
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  Speaker 3: this team in such a funk offensively? Were they trying
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  Speaker 3: to do too much? Is it something that all you know,
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  Speaker 3: this is their this is their window. They have to
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  Speaker 3: win here and they're just not able to get it
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  Speaker 3: done is too much pressure because they don't have who knows,
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  Speaker 3: teams go through slides during the year. But when you
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  Speaker 3: talk about that lineup compared to other lineups in the
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  Speaker 3: American League, it's got to be one of the better ones.
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  Speaker 3: That's why they're in the position that they're in. But
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  Speaker 3: this team is going to They're going to go as
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  Speaker 3: far as their lineup takes them. So this last month
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  Speaker 3: of the season, month and a half, they're gonna have
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  Speaker 3: to really show what they have and win a lot
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  Speaker 3: of seven to six ball games.
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  Speaker 1: You right on, Albres is by far their best bat,
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  Speaker 1: their most clutch bat, such a danger in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't have him for one hundred games.
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  Speaker 2: I know. But here I disagree with what Crusher said.
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  Speaker 2: Their lineup doesn't this team will go as far as
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  Speaker 2: their bullpen carries them to because of the way with
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  Speaker 2: Hater out and the way their bullpen of Brady is
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  Speaker 2: being used now. So to me, it's not as far
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  Speaker 2: their lineup takes them, it's how far their bullpen and
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  Speaker 2: how many outs can joe a spot of steal from
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  Speaker 2: the starters to save the bullpen at some point.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, but I think the bullpen's gonna need to be
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  Speaker 3: gonna need to be in there, and there's gonna be
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  Speaker 3: some runs that have to be scored to back those
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  Speaker 3: guys up. They have to be able to tack on
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  Speaker 3: those extra runs. I'm not saying other teams don't, but
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  Speaker 3: the Padres. The Padres have they have two bullpen nights,
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  Speaker 3: they have three to four guys that then they can
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  Speaker 3: roll out the next night and run three to four
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  Speaker 3: guys out there. Obviously, we're talking about extremes. A team
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  Speaker 3: that just lost one of the best closers in the
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  Speaker 3: game and hater and now their bullpen is shrunk to
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  Speaker 3: the team that has all bullpen in the Padres. So
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  Speaker 3: that's the extremes. But this offense has to be able
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  Speaker 3: to keep a whoever the long relief guy, I'm not
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  Speaker 3: sure who's getting the bulk innings, the long relief innings
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  Speaker 3: out of that pen. They're gonna need to be able
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  Speaker 3: to keep the lead to the point where a spot
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  Speaker 3: of feels like I can keep that guy out there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, bullpen's problem, That's what I'm saying to me. It's
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  Speaker 2: more important and the lineup can break all you want,
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  Speaker 2: but if you can't hold leads.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter, especially in the playoffs. Bennetts Us is
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  Speaker 1: hurt and shut down for a couple of weeks. I
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  Speaker 1: think he's a week into that right now too.
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  Speaker 2: If use those guys, they've heard those guys pretty hard.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah all right, so we'll see. But Houston still there
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• 11:35
  Speaker 1: Clayton Kershaw looking like he might be a postseason starter
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  Speaker 1: for the Dodgers. He might mess around and start a
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  Speaker 1: playoff game for them, right guys? I mean aj sub
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  Speaker 1: two era in August five innings, one run against Cincinnati,
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  Speaker 1: three oh six ERA on the season.
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  Speaker 2: Is he starting a playoff game right now? He is?
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  Speaker 2: But let me let me explain something.
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  Speaker 3: You.
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  Speaker 2: We had a whole talk with multiple people on the
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  Speaker 2: Dodgers about Clayton Kershaw on Saturday. You know what the
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  Speaker 2: city does. It's kind of like when I kept talking
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  Speaker 2: about Jason Alexander. He kind of throws under the hitting speed.
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  Speaker 2: But he knows. It's like a Maddox when we've talked
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  Speaker 2: to Maddox earlier, and when he comes on when he's
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  Speaker 2: running his ye, his whole thing about like I knew
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  Speaker 2: where to put the ball and I knew how to pitch.
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  Speaker 2: That's what Kershaw does know. He knows how to throw
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  Speaker 2: that big curveball. He can backdoor the slider, he can
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  Speaker 2: backfoot the slider and then he runs ninety up there
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  Speaker 2: at the top of the zone and people swing and
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  Speaker 2: miss at it because they're not ready for it. But
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  Speaker 2: he knows how to pitch. He's just good at what
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  Speaker 2: he does. He's one of the best of all time
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  Speaker 2: for a reason. I don't care how already throws. He's
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  Speaker 2: Clayton freaking Kershaw. He's good.
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  Speaker 1: You have to kratz when you've got the stuff like that.
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  Speaker 3: These days, can we can we stop having the surprised
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  Speaker 3: voice that Scott had when he was like Clayton Kershaw.
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  Speaker 3: He did good. I mean, is he a playoff? No,
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  Speaker 3: I don't think he's starting for them right now in
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  Speaker 3: a game, because you have you want to have Snell
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  Speaker 3: Glass now and Yamamoto, So I don't think the time
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  Speaker 3: starting unless they get to a game seven. I think
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  Speaker 3: he started not starting before those three guys fourney. If
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  Speaker 3: they need a fourth guy, he's the guy. But let's
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  Speaker 3: stop being surprised. Clayton Kershall does this every year. He's
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  Speaker 3: on the mount.
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  Speaker 1: Hot corner time. One of the best pitchers in baseball
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  Speaker 1: this year is Nathan e. Baldi, a one to seven,
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  Speaker 1: three ERA, one hundred and thirty innings and now likely
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  Speaker 1: done for the season with the rotator cuff strain. He
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  Speaker 1: said he was a little surprised when he saw the results,
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  Speaker 1: but it is not looking good for him to return.
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  Speaker 1: It is also very much not looking like the Rangers
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  Speaker 1: are going to make the playoffs this year, a team
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  Speaker 1: that many picks to do some damage.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, well, you see the list right there. They've
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  Speaker 2: lost to Valdi, Carter, Sumi, and Gray for the season
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  Speaker 2: are close to it, so it makes it really hard.
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  Speaker 2: They haven't hit all year. They pitched really well. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if they still do, but at one point
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  Speaker 2: they had the best dra in the league, so I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if they still do. I haven't checked the
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  Speaker 2: stats lately, but they're they're four and a half back.
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  Speaker 2: They're five in the loss look at the losses. Forget
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  Speaker 2: the wild card games back like, look at the you
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  Speaker 2: gotta look at the losses because you can't make those
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  Speaker 2: losses up. So, yeah, they're five hundred team. That's what
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  Speaker 2: they've been all year. They're just a They're a five
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  Speaker 2: hundred team with a lot of stars that just aren't
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  Speaker 2: doing what they do they should be doing offensively, especially.
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  Speaker 3: Dang it, dang it. When you've seen Nathan EVOLDI get hurt.
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  Speaker 3: That's all I say. Like, people need to look into
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  Speaker 3: the numbers that he was putting up this year under
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  Speaker 3: two era. He's thirty, I forget thirty five years old.
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  Speaker 3: Thirty five years old, and this is a guy that,
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  Speaker 3: to me, I think he changes teams because of the
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  Speaker 3: fact that if you're in the playoffs, you can trust
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  Speaker 3: him to come into big spots. There's he's on a
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  Speaker 3: short list of big time playoff pitchers. And they're not
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  Speaker 3: gonna make it this year. I think they've been out.
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  Speaker 3: They've been on the outside looking in for a while now,
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  Speaker 3: but the numbers got close. There are a few games out.
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  Speaker 3: They're making a run, but the run happened when they
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  Speaker 3: were when their offense was going. There has to be
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  Speaker 3: an adjustment there, and I don't know that that adjustment
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  Speaker 3: can be made this year. It has to it has
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  Speaker 3: to be made next year, unfortunately, and hopefully all these
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  Speaker 3: guys come back healthy from their various injuries.
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  Speaker 1: I remember at some point early in the season, or
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  Speaker 1: it might have even been before the season, we were like,
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  Speaker 1: how many starts from Jacob de gram for this team
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  Speaker 1: to be a division winner or a rid everyone has
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  Speaker 1: right if I told you Jacob de Graham, at thirty
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  Speaker 1: seven years old, has made twenty five starts with a
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: sub three ERA this year. Like, damn, the Rangers are good.
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  Speaker 2: That's what you saying. They haven't hit for two years now.
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  Speaker 2: They haven't hit for two years now, the way that
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: we think they're cable, Maybe this is what they are.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe twenty three was a fluke.
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: Sometimes hangovers can last a really long time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've heard watch one of those movies. I don't drink,
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  Speaker 2: so I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: All right, but if you did, it could last years.
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  Speaker 1: It's lasting two years in Arlington right now.
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  Speaker 2: I will say when you say something.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean the Rangers are stacking cups, they're stacking strikeouts,
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  Speaker 1: They're they're not scoring runs, crats.
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: I think this. I think the stadium changed. I think
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: that's the big thing. Like I don't even know what
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: they're calling the stadium now, but the new stadium is
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: playing so tough for these hitters. It is playing twenty three.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: They won it there in twenty three, and I'm about
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: the same stadium, globe life.
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: And what did what did we all change? There's no
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: they didn't like renovate the new stadium. What did we change?
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: I think they got the Human Door too. I think
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: something about that change made a huge difference there and
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: another team that had a really, really good offense that
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: now their offense is kind of gone down a little bit.
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: I think it changed more than people want to.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: Look at the other team. What's the other Atlanta?
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: Atlanta? Atlanta's the second highest elevation in baseball.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: Yes, we know this is it. The Human Door has
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: been in play for more than two years.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: Actually, theories. I get really excited about them. Crowd at
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: least one a week and it's.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: So do you tell me the reason they can't hit
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: on at home or on the road is because of
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: the humid door. I mean they can't hit four sing
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: fastballs because the balls are more humid. So therefore they
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: stay straighter. Just but every if every team's using the
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: human humid door, every ball should move the same, right they.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: So they just stopped hitting forcing fastballs. Dolly's gonna say it,
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: just stopped stopped hitting forty homers.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: Age has up to you.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: They all got they all got older, They all got
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: a year older. Every team got a year older. Corey
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: Seeger is still in his prime.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: Okay, he's doing fine. He's doing fine. Marcus Simons a
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: little bit older now.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: All of a sudden, All of a sudden, Jonah got hurt.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: He can't. Jonahan got hurt. He's not as good anymore.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: We have to bring Brett Boone back on and find
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: out what he has observed over the last few months.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: I mean, Evan Carter has been hurt pretty much since
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: the World Series. Listen, they called lightning in a bottle.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: I was on a team that did done in two
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: thousand and five. We callt lightning in a bottle, and
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: everything went right, we won right.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: Evan Carter was ridiculous.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: Evan Carter was ridiculous, but the whole Rangers team that
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: year was unbelievable. That's what I'm saying. For two years
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: now a Dullis hasn't been the same guy. Simeon has
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: really fallen off the shwayat Langford. Hasn't been what they
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: thought he'd be. He's a good player, but they thought
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: he was going to be a superstar. No, he's still
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: got plenty of time.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: To get there, time to spend some money in the
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: off season for some bats.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but they've they've you know, they've brought Yeah, not
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: that so Josh Young hasn't been what they thought he
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: was gonna be.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: What Cedar and Semi and it was four years.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: Ago, Okay, but yes, but I'm saying they brought in
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: guys that were doing exactly what you guys said. Their
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: issue is they can't hit the four same fastball. Who
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: are we going to go get four same fastball hitters
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: all of a sudden they can't hit a four same
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: fastball either.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Josh Peterson is older. Jake Berger was in Triple
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: A this year.
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: I'm saying it didn't work. I'm saying it didn't work.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: Something is not working there and the stadium has to
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: be affecting these guys in some way or else. Hey,
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: you know what, maybe we just need to look at
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: twenty twenty three as an aberration and this is a
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: five hundred two.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: Well that's more of what it is. They just summed
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: it up right there.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: We said it about the Blue Jays, Oh they can't hit.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Suddenly with the renovations, now they can hit this year.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: We said it about the Mariners, Oh they can't hit there.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Now they can hit this year.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well they went and got some dudes that can hit.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: That's my point.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: I mean, cal rawling, he's got fifty home runs in
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: a place where you're not supposed to be able to
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: hit home runs.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Randy Roseraina looks damn good too.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So listen, gldlife is big. It is large, and
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: you have to hit it to get homers out of there.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: It is a big part. It is a large part.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: And trust me, when you go in there and you
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: see it and you hear the hitters talk about it,
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: they're like, oh, man, you got a crush and you
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: get it out of here. But both teams have to
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: do that, and the other kids are scoring runs there
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: against them enough to not help them come in. And
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: they also play anyone games on the road. They're pitching
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: anyone games on the road.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: You do, but their pitching staff is one of them.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: Has the best era, had the best era in baseball?
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: Watch how de gram is pitching? Is it? And you
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: of all these pitching two dudes that would routinely sit
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: ninety eight to one hundred. Are they getting older? Yes,
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: I agree they're getting older, but maybe make Mike Maddox's
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: help them understand that, dude, balls are not coming out
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: going out of this ballpark. Let's pitch a little bit.
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: And it's starting to work. Teams might have to change
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: how they how they go after their offseason acquisitions. A
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: team that spent over a billion dollar, over half a
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: billion dollars on two guys in Seeger and Simeon to
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: increase their offense, and maybe they're going to go just
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: all pitching from now on.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: It works. They won the World Series. You always say
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: it doesn't matter if you win the World Series. It worked.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: They won a World Series. Boom, move on. I mean,
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: maybe they just had a great year and everything came together. Great,
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: that happens. Stuff happens every once in a while. That happened.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Hard to create a dynasty in baseball. How many back
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: to back jamps since the Yankees a quarter century ago? None? Oh?
• 21:17
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• 21:17
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  Speaker 1: Wilson Contreres got six games, not Hefty, Sorry, Bob our
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• 22:42
  Speaker 2: Is, if Rob's got ten, why did he only get six?
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Because it doesn't make sense.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: And he's appealing, so it'll probably go to five.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: But if Roblay's got ten for chucking about, why did
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: controls only get six?
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: He was attempting physical harm on it ump twice they
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: held him back. He looked like he was ready to
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: punch the guy.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: He had those eyes that you don't want to mess
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: with when you see certain looks and certain when you
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: see looks and eyes, there are just times where you're like, somebody,
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: let's grab him and just gonna take a whole lot
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: of us to find him.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: But so now the president is sent craft. If you
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: throw a bat at an umpire and it doesn't hit him,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: it's six games.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: Maybe they deemed it wasn't thrown at the umpire. Maybe
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: he was trying to throw it at Brent Brown's face.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: I don't yeah, right, but like I said, like I
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: said yesterday, maybe it's maybe it was the malicious intent
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: of it, Like this was just kind of like a
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: like a backhand flip kind of John.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: But I mean, you can't justify this. Quit trying to
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: justify you can't. He threw his bat in the direction
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: of the umpire. Everyone's trying to justify it. He didn't
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: throw it as hard as Rodblaze. He also hit his
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: hitting coach in the face with a bat.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: It's so dangerous when you throw a bat, and I
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: think in.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: The middle of a scrum, you throw a bat soft
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: like it was this same thing with the Roblay stuff.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Because I've gone back and forth all week with fans
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: who are like, well, did you see the background with
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: the pitcher and whatever else? And I'm like, totally get it.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: What was going on there with him getting hit was wrong.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: He should have charged the mound and slubbed him in
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: the face with his hands. Hey, busy day on the
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: waiver wire yesterday six veterans placed on outright right, Bob
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Nightingale reporting on it. The name that stands out for most,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Carlos Santana didn't work out for the Cleveland Guardians.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: No, And you know what, they're not probably gonna make
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: the playoffs. So if they have a young guy in
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Triple A, they can bring up and let him have it,
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: let him have a little run here.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Well, he already lost playing time, comments Arter and tjkfis
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: sir grabbing all the playing time?
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: And for Santana Kratz, I mean he still can take
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: a walk, but at no pop, this is nothing on
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: him in his careers at a great run. But when
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: they made this little switcheroo in the off season, Carlos
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Santana is not Josh Naylor Cleveland. Was it worth the
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: pick and slay CHACONI? I don't think so. I'm my mind.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: If you were trying to compete this year.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: Not Yeah, that's the biggest part. Not this year. I
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: don't think it was worth it this year. Is it later?
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: You know they weren't gonna they weren't gonna bring Naylor
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: back after this season. Did they feel like this year
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: was the year? They always feel like this year is
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: the year, But they make decisions for the next year,
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: which is the year. And this is why a team
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: like the Guardians, you are gonna have some up and
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: down times. Man, I didn't I didn't see Santana dropping
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: off this much, but he did. And you see what
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: Naylor's doing, especially now he's going to gone to Seattle.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: I mean he made adjustments, lowered his strikeout rate up
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: to his walk raid, He's stealing bases stuff. It'll be
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: nice to have because the Guardians have been in it
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: for a little minute, for a minute here, and every
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: little bit counts.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: Can we show that tweet again? I just no, okay, sorry,
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: I was confused.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Sorry, And they can't hit the Guardians can't. And in
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: the off season I was like, so same price, Naylor
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: replaced by Santana. No thanks, mistake.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you're right, but they wanted to make that
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: trade and it didn't work out. Sometimes trades will work out.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: Teams try to go and cheaper, and they should have
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: just kept her.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: And he was his heart and soul.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Guys, Naylor was the heart and soul big. They messed
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: up huge presence in the room.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: I know they weren't his term, but like, did that
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: trade mean enough to you long term that it was
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: worth not having him for a season when you are
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: contending in a down al that you just made it
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: to the Alcs in make it makes sense.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: I can't exactly.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: So Santana can get claimed. You'd have to pick up
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: the two million left for him this year. He probably won't,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: but a team might pick him up for the league minimum.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was my question. How many of these guys
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: get picked up?
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, better than box scores. We go live to our
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: reporter on the scene in Pennsylvania for the latest on
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: the Phillies and the Mets series, Sarah Kratz. Have the
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Phillies figured out City Field yet?
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah? They took down the speaker in center field, so
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: it should have worked, I mean the microphone in center field,
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: so they figured it out right, came up on a
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: losing end again. The concerning part. The concerning part I
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: think for Phillies fans, which is probably the weakest part
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: of this team, is the bullpen. And they lost another
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: lead again. Yes, I get it Lozardo. Those are Lozardo's runs,
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: but the bullpen in City Field has had struggles, back
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: to Jeff Hoffman giving up the Grand Slam last year
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: to Lindor, to last night Johan Duran giving up four hits,
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: four singles, which I think is a little bit easier
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: to swallow than walks. Some closers. They give you the
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: tight rope and it's the walks. But this is I
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: hear the Phillies fans. They are like, we can't beat
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: the Mets and the players. We have to face the Mets.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: We're not gonna win. There's no way we can't face
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: the Mets in the playoffs.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: It's concerning. There's no Wheeler uh, Diz out pitched, Daran
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Diaz was great in the eighth and Duran gives.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: Poor Kylee cover cannot of d If you look at
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: those numbers, you want to see some good numbers. Look
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: at that number.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Can't hit at City Field?
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: And now because they take the microphone down, you know
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: what they're.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Calling it the bone mic, like a boom mic. They're
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: like the bone mic.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. You know when he said I effing
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: don't like this places. Yeah, I should have said that
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: about City Field and the mic. Yeah.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: But in all seriousness, should Phillies fans be concerned or
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: is it more of a Mets fans excited that this
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: team's turning things around.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Oh, the Met's gonna win. Are the Mets gonna win
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: the division?
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: They're five games back. I think they're on I think
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: they need maybe one or two more to win the
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: season series, still tall task they play each other again, though.
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, one more to win the series.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: For the Mets, right, So then if you do level up,
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: then you get the advantage. I mean, still krats five
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: games with a few weeks to go.
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: I don't think. I don't think there's concern about the division. Look,
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: if they lose the division, the Phillies have some serious issues.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: Their offense will go in the tank, all their starting
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: pitchers will have gone in the tank. Like, I don't
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: I don't think they're losing the division. Do you want
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: to beat a team that then goes into another city
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: and plays lackluster. Yes, But the Mets clearly are getting
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: up for the Phillies. Vento's Mark Ventos is hitting the
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: ball to the opposite field now and driving runs in
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: like he was at the end of last season. At
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: lengthens their lineup out, they're taking their walks, they're taking
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: pitches like to me yesterday, Lozardo had great stuff. He
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: was ninety nine nine to one hundred, and in some
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: of the at bats his velocity kind of dipped a
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: little bit and then ray at the end when he
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: got into some trouble. He tried to bring it back up.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: But you know the Mets. The Mets weren't just all
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: or nothing. They put together good at bats. They're figuring
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: out ways to beat this team. Even after Bader comes
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: up with a huge swing. I still think some of
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: the underbelly issues of the Mets are gonna be their
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: biggest issues. And Hellsley showed that last night. They're starting
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: pitching isn't going past five and they don't need that
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: in the playoffs, but you need it to get to
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: the playoffs to make your bullpen healthy.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: Fourteen runs, ten and runs in ten appearances for Ryan
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: Helsley Right now with the Mets.
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: It hasn't been good. I mean he's been a closer
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: and now he's asked to pitch the eighth inning. It
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: hasn't been good. It hasn't been good, especially for a
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: free agent year. He wanted to go in there and
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: do well, and you know he listened. They brought him
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: in there to get bridge the gap to Diaz. He
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: has been great all year. He has been unbelieve well,
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: won five ERA, one six ERA or something like that.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: So yeah, they brought him in. He he just hasn't
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: been able to do it. And by the way, Schwarber's
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: oh for ten with eight punches off of Edwin Diaz
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: in the regular season and the playoffs. Theers more and
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: some guy in the chat said, he almost hit a
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: home run last night. Yeah, Well, I almost did a
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: lot of things in my life and they didn't work
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: out and I stuck out.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Hey, one more X factor here, in addition to the
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: fact that the Phillies have lost twenty three of twenty
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: nine at City and the Mets have really turned things
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: around on offense. By the way, the most run scored
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: since August twelfth. That's a solid two and a half
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: week stretch. They couldn't hit with a run scoring position
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: all year. Now their second best in the month of August, right,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: So the offense is finding it lately. They decided Kratz
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: that they did not do everything right in the offseason
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: with picking winners pitching wise, so they actually have done
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: a really nice job of developing high end pitching prospects.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: They go, you know what, we're thinking Nolan McLain next year.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Let's call him up this year and give him a shot.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: Two good starts join a tongue. The best stuff in
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: the minor leagues right now, dominating in the upper levels
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: all year, twenty something starts, I think like a one
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: something era strikeout to walk ratio elite. They did not
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: think at the beginning of the season he was going
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: to be a part of the mix for them in
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. He's starting on Friday, so you might
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: have a new looking rotation for the New York Mets.
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: I mean, if he does what McLean's done in his
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: short stint in the big leagues, and supposedly everybody's saying
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: his stuff is better from a command and a stuff standpoint,
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: I don't know whatever it's called stuff. Plus it's yep,
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: it's impressive. He's an athletic. They're both athletic pitchers. The
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: starting rotation needs this jolt. And now it's going to
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: be up to Mendy to be like, Okay, you normally
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: call up a rookie and you go, hey, we're not
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: gonna push it. We're not going to push him past five. Well,
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: that's their issue. They only they need dudes to start
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: and do well. Yes, but they need to do the
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: start and go past the fifth inning, go past their
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: ninety pitches. So if Mendy can figure out a way
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: to get these guys to throw six innings, God forbid
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: seven innings. This is this is huge. I mean there
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: they want to win. So if you've done well in
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: this organization, they're gonna bring me up.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: The Mets are in. By the way, all you saying,
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: oh the Reds res mes in four up.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Four up, and the lost get them, I just said
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: they're no in the mix.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: I mean not longer. They're one. Now they're four back
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: in the loss. They're done. Okay, sorry, I'm sorry, I'll
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: say no pretty much, pretty much. Both leagues just said.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: We're gonna start doing porst mortem for teams.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: So you want to old Rockies, Pirates, White Sox, twins,
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: a lot more than that, we can get going Cardinals.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: Hey, let's get Carlos Mendez, a Mets manager, on Jonah
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: Tom Carlos.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: Have you guys decided to go with Tom? Yes, that'll
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: be on Friday, on Friday? Yes? What what led you
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: guys to make that decision after such little time for
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: him in the in the miners.
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: Or yeah, I mean I think it's all about him
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: dominating the minor leagues. Uh, you know, you can make
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: a case, or he's double A, you want to give
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: him a better look at the triple A level. But man,
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: you know, a couple of outings and you know, I
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: think he's just he's hard to keep him there, you know.
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: So here he is now. You know we we knew
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: we were gonna need a six starter, and he put
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: himself in the conversation and.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: Here he is.
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: Now, I'm gonna get an opportunity for us.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: I am all about this. Don't waste bullets in the
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: minor leagues. And what's the worst that happens He comes
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: up and start Okay, you know what.
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: They should do. Make him a bulk reliever at the
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: end of the game, so you can come in and
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: pitch four in the pirates, the.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: Fake I don't know.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: Throw them out there and let's see what happens.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: See what happens.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: Why not you got a little cushion, You got four
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: game cushion in the standings to make the last wild card.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: If he's been this good in the throw him out
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: there and see what happened.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: They just did this ten days ago. It worked, and
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: it's worked. Even think about this for a team that
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: has had to pick up some dubs down the stretch here.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: As much as you say the Reds are out like
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: stuff to pick up those wins, Nolan McLean comes in
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: helps them win games. John and Tong might do the
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: same thing. Some of the offseason moves this year for
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: the Mets for pitching didn't work out like they did
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: a year ago. They have pitching prospects. Yep, that's the
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: beauty of it.
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: Sometimes scratch, you'll say, with a big market team, Oh,
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: they spend their way out of the problems. Actually that
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: this time they kind of did the reverse. They made
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: mistakes on the spending side. But they've done a nice
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: job of getting a farm system together, which is something
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: they didn't have even four or five years ago. They
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: did not have this type of option. Even twenty twenty three,
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: our first year right where they had the massive team payroll,
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: and they missed and it was one of the most
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: disappointing years. They didn't have this in the can when
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: Berlander got hurt, right remember Berlander got hurt the beginning
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: year for them all that they didn't have this. Now
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: they have this that they can bring in at the
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: end of the season, and if these guys deal, they'll
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: be starting playoff games.
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: That is, that's a lot bill start playoff games in
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: this in the big city for this team as rookie.
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: You have two rookies starting playoff games. I don't know.
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: This is also something Mendy said it. He said, you know,
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: because we're going to six man rotation, you need more
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: pitching depth in an organization when you have to keep
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: guys on a six man rotation. Yes, that's an awesome,
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: awesome luxury to have that you have six man rotation,
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: all that stuff, but now you have to have more
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: guys to be able to fill in that depth. It'll
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: be interesting. Is this kid's fresh into his twenty second
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: year of life like he's twenty two. I don't think
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: you need more time and triple A to me the
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: numbers he put up in double A. He had a
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: one to five e r A and double A. Go
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: get it, you throw strikes. It's the same game, just
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: the lights are a little brighter.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: Yep. I'm excited. It's gonna be a fun dayview on Friday.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: Prospect This is cool, it's fun to watch.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: Let's see, let'see what these kids got. I mean, so
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: scared to throw the prospects and see what they got. Man,
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: if you think they're special, then they'll be specially when
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: they get to the big leagues.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: And worst case, he doesn't have a great start.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: But if you go, okay, if you look at the
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: Mets rotation right now and they get they get to
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: the wild card round, Peterson's got to start game one?
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: Maybe probably, Yeah, you're not going to be at home.
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: They're going to be on the road. So do you
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: go Sanga on the road? You go Peterson? Because right
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: now the who would they play? The three the three seed?
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: Who is the could be a bet right now the Dodgers.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: Do you go Senga on the road against I mean
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: in Dodger Stadium? Peterson?
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: Until you got game three? Said and also he's not
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: looking as good lately. I'm Peterston. Game one?
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: Then who.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: Man? Game two?
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: Want to go left left? Okay, I don't know. It's
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: an interesting and you split those two, you split those
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: two up.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so maybe it's.
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: Three games series. By the way, it's three games. I'm
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: going got three games.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: Peterson, maybe one of the youngsters and.
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: Then man I at home or mini game three? All
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: three games will be on the road.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. We got to.
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: If it starts today. If it starts today, they're not
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: putting one of the youngsters in. To me, you're gonna
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: get to see five more starts if I have my
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: math right, because they have thirty games left, you see
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: five more starts of both of them. They could prove it.
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: But I have a tough I have a tough time
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: saying they're gonna throw one of those guys out there.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: Maybe both, Maybe just go with both lefties. Aren't the Dodgers?
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: I mean, what are their show? I gotta look at
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: the splits show.
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: Hey, Mookie, will Smith, Freddy Monty Oscar left left. You
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: don't get to go home though all three games are
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: on the road, aren't they. Oh, three games are in
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: l A. You don't get to go home. So I
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: would think you would go Peterson saying Anaya slash kid,
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: you don't get to go home. You played three in
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: a row, and that's the advantage.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: All right, We've got time, We've got time.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: You know. It's just it's an interesting thought to start
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: thinking of your Carlos Mendoza.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: That would be a banger wildcard series.
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: What about the other one? The jump?
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: The other one is going to be Padres, Cubs Cubs.
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: Another banger.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: Nationally, it's like SEC right now, it's just different.
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: Although the Dodgers are only one game behind the Phillies.
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: Can you imagine if it's Mets Phillies Mets Wildcard round
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: and I was there for the Ds, it was crazy.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: Can you imagine Phillies Mets Wildcard Round?
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: Phillies don't want that oh Man at home.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: Padres would be at home.
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: They at least have a chance in city field. They
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: don't have a no chance a poppy.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: Hey, this is a Philly guy saying Phillies have no
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: chance in Queens if they're playing all the games there.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: You heard it here first.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: Don't want to hear that.
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: Just read the numbers. Raid the numbers. I'm talking stack
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: cast oh and eight. In their last eight games, nine
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: of ten, nine of their last ten, they've lost in
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: city field twenty three of twenty nine. It's not good.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: This is a good team for years. There's six and
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: twenty three at city field the last few years.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: Pause Horse, everyone has it, twins have the Yankees. Phillies
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: have city field?
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: There you go, all right, if you're catching this afterward,
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: let us know your thoughts on these two teams and
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: what's gonna happen the rest of the way. Mets fans,
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: if you want to lay out your rotation for us
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: for the postseason as of right now, we'll take it. OKKP.
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: This is your first arena club experience. We're gonna open
• 40:39
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• 40:42
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• 40:44
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• 40:47
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• 40:49
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• 40:52
  Speaker 1: that we're chasing, and you can see the entire lineup
• 40:54
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• 40:56
  Speaker 1: There's the Yamamoto signed card. Now let's open up our
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: pack and see how we do. We have ourselves a
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: really cool graphic and then a show. Hey, O Tani,
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: fifty to fifty card from last year. What do you
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: want to do? Should we sell it right back to
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: them for sixteen or should we keep it?
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: You should give it to me, I'll.
• 41:20
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• 41:23
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• 41:35
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• 41:40
  Speaker 1: be talking about Colson Montgomery more?
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: Who did I tell you to make your home run
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: pick yesterday?
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: He's got homer in four straight, fourteen homers in his
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: first forty three games in the big leagues. He's on
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: the White Sox, by the way, if you haven't been
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: paying attention, so he homered in every game against the Twins,
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: and Byron Buckson asked him for assigned card. He says,
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: sure if I get assigned bat in return, and there's
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: a pick. Sure, if you're watching right now, and if
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: you're listening, we'll explain it. Sign bat nice photo?
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: Cool? What big Leakers do?
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: What do you got on Montgomery? Is this a future star?
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: He hits homers?
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: That's good.
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's rocking the one too in Chicago too, So
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: you got to be good if you wear that number.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: All. I look at him, I'm like, WHOA, But.
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: Listen, these guys got a chance to be good at
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: first round pick. Been a big prospect kind of the
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: last couple of years has kind of fallen off a
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: little bit. They made some swing adjustments. He's doing better.
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: He's got pop. The biggest thing for him is he's
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: just got pop and he keeps hitting homers. Yeah, but yeah,
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: he's got a chance. The White Sox are much in
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: a much better place at this time last this year
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: than they were last year because they have hope and
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: they have energy, and they have guys that are actually
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: pretty good ball players instead of some of the guys
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: that are running out there that you're like, ah, why
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: not just bring up the young kids and let them roll.
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: And they've done that and they've provided a little bit
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: of spark and some energy, which is great.
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: It calls some Montgomery's rating really well defensively too. Kratz's
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: top top reading.
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna talk about his hitting. It's crazy.
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: You rarely see a dude struggle in the minor leagues
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: and hit better in the big league. So hopefully the
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: big league is easier for him, because so far he's
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: making it look like it is. And he played in
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: Charlotte where dingers were super easy to hit or are
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: super easy to hit.
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: During the game in Saint Louis last night. Wow, welcome
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: back to the seventies. This is what he used to
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: look like. I was there pre whity Herzog buying shag
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: carpet asap, a major rebuilt and proster and trust better becoming.
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: One can only hope it's coming right when I swear
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: to AKA good luck, Hi am Bloom reading for you.
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: Seventeen thousand ish.
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: Walls crowd ever, Yeah, smallest crowd ever at the new
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: Bush Walls crowd ever.
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: They're regular sized people, but not a lot of them.
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: The crowd, the people in the crowd weren't small. How
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: many there was just to clarify.
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: It, yes, bad though.
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: But for Joe Buck, a guy who's Saint Louis born
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: and bred, like yeah this is this has got a
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: crush Joe Buck to have to send this tweet out
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: and have it come and fans get it. He goes
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: back to the small I just I'll say the smallest
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: crowd ever because.
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: They're new protesting is they don't like the product on
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: the field, right, Oh yeah, it's a very good and
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: the fans. He got a lot of fan replies like hey,
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: it's not us, and he's like, no, I'm with you.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: He's like, you guys are awesome. You guys, I see
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: the messager sending to the franchise right now. It's not
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: good enough, but.
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: It's gonna take three or four years unless they spend money,
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: which the Dewett family has not been willing to do so.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: Unless they spend money for heine Bloom, it's not gonna matter.
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: It's still going to take three to four years for
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: them to get back. Because listen, say what you want
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: about heine Bloom, but in Boston, hein Bloom did everything
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: that he was supposed to do. Trade the first thing
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: they told him, trade Mookie Betts. Okay, I gotta get
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: whatever I can get. Connor Wong is the one player
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: that came back in the deal. It's been decent for
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: the Red Sox, right yep. And then they're like, rebuild
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: the farm system. Guess who Roman, Anthony, Marcelo Meyer, all
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: those guys are drafted by hein Bloom. Heinm Bloom did
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: what he was told to do. Cut the payroll, get
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: the team, get prospects. We have prospects coming up, keep
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: the keep the organization sustainable. And guess what they did.
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: Sorry him, you're not good enough. See you what.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: Cardinals fans might be really happy about that coming up,
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: because if they're not going they got to look forward
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: to spend with the big boys. Then you need to
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: be able to do more with your farm system. And
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: that's something that the Cardinals did really well for a
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: long time. And remember, Katie we were wrote a great
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: story about how they dumbed things down with their player
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: development and the time and the effort and the money
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: that they were putting into that.
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: Well what what they were what they were told is
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: that the development every year Mosaalic was given a certain
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: number and that number was for the whole organization. And
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: so then he had to try to build a big
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: league team without upping the payroll. But he also had
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: to try to So what they did is they cut
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: they cut back on the minor league people in order
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: to try to put more money into the big league team.
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: So they I mean, I heard they don't have a
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: catching coordinatory don't have they don't have They have like
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: the fewest coaches in them of any team, which is crazy,
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: and they're working on fixing that.
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: We found an article that we're going to read to AJ.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: It's from our Buddy, Jim Boden and the Athletic the
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: biggest concern for each MLB contending team down the stretch.
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: I will present options to you in the National League.
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: Then later we'll get to the American League, but we'll
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: start with the NL. You'll have your options on the board.
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: I'll read them out for everyone and you'll choose one. Okay,
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: are you ready to play? No, that's more of an
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: off season thing. It's cold and lonely in the winter,
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: but right now it's the summertime and we're going over
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: those contending teams. So let's throw it up there. I'm
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: going to read the National League for you and give
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: you your options. The Brewers, here's one concern, lack of
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: home run power. Phillies life after Wheeler, Dodgers, Bullpens cubbed
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: Kyle Tucker's summer slump, Padres, the rotation, Mets, the bridge
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: to Edwin Diaz, and the Reds haven't played in clean
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: pick one. That means something to you.
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: Uh, Phillies, I'm gonna go Phillies life without Zach Bieler.
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: I'm a stee cratz is thunder because I get to
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: go first.
• 47:12
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: They still have Sanchez they still have Ranger Suarez, who's performed.
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: Nola's gonna come back and have a great last month,
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: be pumped for the playoffs. And I think they're bullpen
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: with Duran, They're gonna keep Romano out of it, and
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: they're gonna have the bullpen lined up nicely with Rob Thompson.
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: They're gonna slug their way. So I don't this. Yes,
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: is this a huge loss, Yes, but I think they
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: have enough depth in the rotation out they lose another guy,
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: I'm worried. But if they keep Sanchez Lozardo Suarez and Nola,
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: and if Taiwan Walker keeps going, which is a lot
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: of ifs, I know, But I like the Phillies and
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: I don't. I think this is a big deal, but
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: it's not the end of the season blow that people
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: think it might be.
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: That's fair. I like that, except it's just the same
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: question I said to Kevin Lallar. Would the Red Sox
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: be better with Raphael Devers in their line? Would the
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: Phillies be better with Zach Wheeler in their rotation? Absolutely?
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: But you can't do anything about it. Grat's your pick, Brewers,
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: What is the exact wording lack of home runs, lack
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: of home run power. I would kind of disagree with
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: that because they have Yelly with twenty six Cheerio be
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: healthy soon seventeen fifteen for William Contreres, who has hit
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: thirteen of those since I think June thirtieth, I think
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: that was the date. Then you have Bryce Terrang who
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: has hit, like we said earlier in the show, nine
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: of them in the last month, and Rhys Hoskins hasn't
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: been playing for the last two months. When he comes back,
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: it's gonna be another added boost to that lineup. And
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: all that to me, they don't have as much power
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: as say the Yankees, who have the most home runs,
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: but the Yankees don't have as many stone bases as
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: the Brewers do. The combination of both, they have enough power.
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: I would say they have enough power.
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: But is it enough? When I mentioned and I heard
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: you mentioned it the other day too, last five World
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: Series winners have finished in the top four in home runs.
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: It's enough. It's enough because the question is if that's
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: not gonna happen, then we should just eliminate the Blue Jays,
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: we should eliminate the Padres, and we should eliminate the Brewers.
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: I think it's enough. In my opinion, I think it's
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: enough for the Brewers. I think they're built enough to overcome.
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: Can they get over the whole? Can they get up?
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: The biggest question for the Bruis? Can they get over
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: the hull?
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: Hey?
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: How are we doing? Poe? Hey, we got a surprise, guest?
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: How we claim most commission about being the commissioner?
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: Just the commissioner.
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: Don't play and be the commissioner commission Keagan didn't pick himself.
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: It's exactly the right decision.
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: I'm shocked, exhausted.
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: You know, there used to be player coaches in baseball.
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: The Brewers. Can the Brewers get over the hump with
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: with power?
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: Because the last you work with Tom Berducci, the last
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: five winners are top four in homers.
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: Give him your mic, play speed, no strikeouts. They absolutely
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: can get over the hump because they make it a
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: nightmare on fishers. They do.
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: They make it a nightmare, and if they get the
• 50:42
  Speaker 3: right matchup, they can get over the hump.
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna burdy this last hole. Who's winning your group? Close?
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: It's the worst golf I played in a long time,
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: But I'm so happy you guys are here.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: We are pumped to be here. But we're gonna have
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: a good conversation tomorrow about this whole commissioner while playing situation.
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: Hey, get your rest, Get your rest, Okay, get your rest.
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: Been as strong for a SMULTI that's the commissioner of
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: the pro live on ft John Smoltz. That's fine. Hey,
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: it's not his best round of golf. It's not his
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: best week of golf. He is definitely working hard here
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: to run the whole tournament, but he still has time
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: to stop by. Where's the ball for him?
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: I think it's a close one up there, the one
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: that's not marked on the green. It's about twelve to
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: fifteen ft It's hard to tell because it's a hill,
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: but twelve ish fifteen ish feet away short.
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: Does he get a burst of energy from a conversation
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: with us?
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: You know what I love about Smoltzy. He said, I'm
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: gonna burdy this last hole and get ready for tomorrow.
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: So he believes that he can make this putt.
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: And he probably needs it to stay in the mix.
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: Joe Pavelski's leading this thing. Sorry, we got distracted for
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: a moment, but.
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: It is already cool.
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: I mean We've got eighty very significant names out here.
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: Wait, you don't know what happened a win, wit chump
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: must have chunked his second shot.
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of baseball on the top ten, but
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: not all baseball. Joe Pavelski, Marty Fish.
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: Oh that is a good shot by wit. Look at him,
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: he's running. Oh no, that's not a good shot. Never mind,
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: never mind, just kidding. We'll try and get the multi
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: rolled way past, way past. Let's back.
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: I got more minutes.
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: I had a live drone were drum so I'm watching
• 52:29
  Speaker 3: the whole tournament.
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: What are we talking about?
• 52:33
  Speaker 3: We're talking about now?
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: Hmm and cue the American League.
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: We said it's smolt stay tomorrow, by the way, Rangers out.
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: Okay, but let me just read the lists, travel schedules.
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: Hold up there, there's people that listen to this on
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: the podcast. I want to lay out what we're working
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: with here. Biggest concern for each American League contending team,
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: Tigers not getting ahead of themselves despite their lead. Blue
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: Jays bullpen depth, Jeff hoffmany A right, by the way,
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: it's close to five, had another rough day yesterday, Astro
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: staying healthy. Red Sox backup the rotation, Yankees lack of
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: defensive stability, Mariners travel schedule, Hey, East Coast trip is
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: roight for them, Royals run production from the bottom of
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: the lineup, and the Rangers.
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna read it.
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't have to.
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: It's actually the first or one of the segments earlier
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: in our show.
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: True, I'm going Mariners travel schedule, What the heck we
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: talking about? When they fly private jets, everyone says they
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: also travel way more than everyone else. So that's been
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: always been a thing for the for the Mariners, is
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: the travel they have to travel. Their closest competition is Oakland.
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: Oh wait, they're not there anymore. So it's no Sacramento.
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: It's still a two and a half hour flight. It's
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: not like it's right up. People think, ah, Sacramento and
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: Seattle right next to each other. It's still a two
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: and a half hour flight. It's kind of like Boston
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: Boston thinking, Oh, Boston and New York are so close
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: to each other, it's still paint in the butt to
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: get there.
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: Who set up the Ironers crats with the East Coast swing?
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: They just did right, and I think they went too
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: and eight or something. Now they got another one coming
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: up this weekend eleven Day three City.
• 54:13
  Speaker 3: I saw them at the end of that ten game
• 54:16
  Speaker 3: road trip in Philly, and obviously I don't watch them
• 54:19
  Speaker 3: all year, so maybe I'm just making a face to
• 54:22
  Speaker 3: face judgment. But it was the second to last game
• 54:26
  Speaker 3: of that series in Philly, and it was a close game.
• 54:29
  Speaker 3: Watching the guys come off the field, they just looked exhausted.
• 54:34
  Speaker 3: Maybe I'm over maybe I'm over dramatizing it, but that's
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: what it looked like face value in the moment, and
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: I was like, man, why these guys so tired?
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: And I want to get your ass kicked. When you
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: get your ass kick, you don't have a lot of
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: energy and you look draggy.
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: It's an.
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter, does matter? Doesn't matter when you're losing, losing, losing,
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: it's like hitting. Everyone's like, oh, this team has no energy.
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: Well they've also got three hits in four games, so yeah, no,
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: no one has energy when they're not hitting it scoring runs.
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: You lose, You had to go to the East coast,
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: you got a six hour flight back. Guess what you do.
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: You're like, we lost again.
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: That's what happened. So from April twelfth through the twentieth,
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: they lost two to three to Baltimore, two of three
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: to the Mets, and they were swept by the Phillies. Now,
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: starting this weekend, they hit the road. Three at Cleveland,
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: three at Tampa Bay Tampa, and three in Atlanta. Now
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: those are teams that are not eight years, so.
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: They should win those series.
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: None of those series are push off pushover series. Cleveland
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: can still pitch and play.
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: Tampa still got some parts, Atlanta still got some pieces.
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: It all depends on who you get starting pitching wise
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: for both those teams too.
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, those can be spoiler teams. That's not fun. They
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: do have four Angels and three Rockies left in their schedule,
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: which is nice.
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: But it's good the end of the year.
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: Two mm hmm, damn it. I just clicked out. But
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: Astros are on their Dodgers are on there, so we'll see. Okay,
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: that's your pick.
• 56:11
  Speaker 3: My pick is the Red Sox. It's the back of
• 56:13
  Speaker 3: the rotation we're talking about for the playoffs. The back
• 56:17
  Speaker 3: of the rotation. Who cares? Who cares? If you can
• 56:21
  Speaker 3: find by the end of the season three good starters.
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: I'll keep saying that. I get it. You need a
• 56:27
  Speaker 3: fourth starter, and that's what it's gonna come down to.
• 56:30
  Speaker 3: But to me, Gilito's throwing well, Beyo's solidified himself as
• 56:37
  Speaker 3: the number two in that rotation, and Crochet I don't
• 56:41
  Speaker 3: really care who the fourth and fifth guys are, because
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: your fourth guy in Game four of the World Series
• 56:47
  Speaker 3: NLCS is gonna throw two or three innings, especially with
• 56:51
  Speaker 3: a bullpen that has Chapman at the end of it,
• 56:55
  Speaker 3: that has Whitlock, that has the third best era in baseball.
• 57:00
  Speaker 3: To me, I think that's the least biggest concern on
• 57:03
  Speaker 3: the American League list.
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: It does to make and give you a few innings.
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: A really good playoff Bueller might step up and give
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: them a big, big innings along the way.
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: Playoff Bueller is different. True, we have two minutes left,
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: so I actually want to point out the Blue Jays.
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: I mentioned the relief pitching.
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: You don't get to pick Scott.
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: I just want to point it out and see if
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: any of you will bite.
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: It's an issue. It's an issue.
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Hoffman has I think seven or eight blown saves.
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: Their starters are great, can they score enough and can
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: they get Yeah? I mean it is an issue we've
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: we've talked about it all year, the Blue Jays bullpen.
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: Can they solidify that bullpen somehow? Someway? And that's a
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: big that's a big thing. Still, it's not going away.
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: It's all like they didn't do a whole lot of
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: the trade deadline to solidify it.
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but were they big enough?
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: I mean they went Bieber, They went and got Bieber.
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: Right now, do they bounce it lour or someone into
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: the bullpen to try to help out? Maybe?
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean Louis Barland hasn't pitched well, but he
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: might turn it around right year up until the last
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: couple of weeks.
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: I'm telling you sometimes when people get traded to a
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: new team, it's just everything is new, and when you
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: get traded, you're like, I have to do so much
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: better because you don't just do the same, do the same.
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: Any others that we missed let us know. Obviously we
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: included all the contenders on here, but if there's something
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: we overlooked from a storyline perspective, drop your thoughts. Nicer
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: mean in the comments coming up next, not mean, no mean,
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: and last slappands you can be mean to means. We're
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: here having a good time.
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm drinking ginger ale one was water, Yeah, chairs.
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: Good for your stomach. Ginger all right, kratz hat, especially.
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: After that dinner Mark took us to last night.
• 58:44
  Speaker 3: Oh it wasn't I know. It wasn't seafood, Mark.
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: It was seafood. It was seafood exactly. Mark got a burger.
• 58:57
  Speaker 3: You thought my you thought my hat was a giant.
• 59:00
  Speaker 3: It's you're way off. It's the Astros, the leading al
• 59:04
  Speaker 3: team in the West. Get it right. It's an easy
• 59:07
  Speaker 3: thing to say, just like Kershaw pitches, well, the Astros
• 59:11
  Speaker 3: win the West.
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: There you go, there you have it.
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: Hey, I wanted to give a shout out to Lucas Giulito.
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: There's a story inside the story here. So he was like, yeah,
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: I was going for the note hitter, hell yeah, and
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: eventually gave up four. But when eight innings he's been
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: dominant for the Red Sox lately, shut down the Orioles.
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: But there's a story inside the story. But as he
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: gets to one hundred and forty innings, he's a free agent.
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: If he doesn't, I mean yeah, no, he needs twenty
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: and two thirds with one month to go and probably
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: five starts.
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: He gets her, Well, what if he has one bad one,
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: doesn't matter.
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: He's getting removed in the second innings.
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: Then he goes eight. The next time, he'll tell bro
• 59:52
  Speaker 2: I'll throw three hundred pitches. Just leave me out there.
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: Gets weird. If you got heat, good way to prep
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: for the playoffs, krats.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 3: Good way to prep for the playoffs. Pushing your innings
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 3: limit coming off of Tommy John your first season, so
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 3: that you're ready for the playoffs. Let's put it this way.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 3: I'm not trying to write a storyline. Well, Lucas Giolito
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 3: is needed for the playoffs. If he doesn't do well
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 3: and they find out he pushed his innings innings a
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 3: little bit, not gonna be too happy in being town
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 3: just saying Jeremy Meyer.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but if he if he's five starts, let's say
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: it's five, which it should be at least five.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, fine, that's four innings to start. Basically, I don't
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: know if I'm assuming. I'm assuming Alex kra is one
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: of the managers too, because I played for managers that
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: didn't care about incentives, and then I played for managers
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: that totally were all about like can I get my
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: guys to get the incentives, and those are the guys
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: you want to play for.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: No fan, he should get them.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah. By the way, Happy birthday Jim Tomy, Jim Tomey's
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: birth day to day. Yeah, Jim Tomy Happy birthday. Old
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: he's old though it's old Oran, you little, he's older
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: than me. Six hundred homers.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: Happy birthday, Jam one of the nicest dudes. Did you
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: know that the Dodgers lost Alex Bessia obleak strain?
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: No, I did not know that that guy was pitching
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: last night. That's what happens when you pitched one hundred
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: and thirty five games out of one hundred and thirty two.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: He's a workhorse.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: Oh, Tomy's fifty five, of course, I was told plus tax,
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: plus tax.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: Fifty. Yes.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 3: Vessio was one of the guys that I think was
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 3: hurt by the fact that they've kind of been holding
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 3: other guys back. Not saying that he wouldn't want to pitch,
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 3: but if you're not even at the end of August
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 3: yet and you have sixty appearances, that is a lot
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 3: of appearances, and he was. He was one of their
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 3: guys out of the pen. I think he even had
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 3: like four or five saves at this point in the season,
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 3: like he was getting meaningful innings because Trinan's been out,
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 3: because Tanner Scott's been out, because Kope's been out. So
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 3: this this sucks. This is why they have such depth
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 3: to try to keep guys healthy. It's a big loss
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 3: right now, but he could probably five weeks of the playoffs.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 3: I'm thinking two to four weeks hopefully, and he can
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 3: be back.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: I hope.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 3: So.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 2: I like him.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: He's he brings, he's really fun.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: He can be really good, but he can also be
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 2: really bad, and when he's really bad, he kind of
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: melts down, which is also fun to watch.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: He is I don't.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: Yes, awesome, He's cool, all right.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: Greg Maddox on the show tomorrow. John Smoltz on the
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: show tomorrow. Maybe Phil Nevin Dev's in the pro in
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: Alabama with Cody Ross as well. Maybe we'll see you.
• 1:02:41
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• 1:02:44
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• 1:02:47
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