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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to the Monday edition of Bear Territory, our
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Speaker 1: second post deadline edition. We want to welcome our new
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Speaker 1: friends watching on NBC Sports Philadelphia, NBC Sports Bay Area
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Speaker 1: in California. Now the dust has settled, the smoke has cleared.
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Speaker 1: There are no more trades. I've even dried out from
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Speaker 1: a weekend in Bristol, Tennessee. So we're just going to
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Speaker 1: talk about baseball this morning. We're going to talk about
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Speaker 1: the Pennant races, and we're going to get into it
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Speaker 1: the ALE East in particular, and then the entire National League.
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Speaker 1: The ALE East is rather interesting, to say the least.
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Speaker 1: Right now, the Blue Jays have finally slowed down a
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Speaker 1: little bit. They have lost six of eight since winning
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Speaker 1: I don't know nineteen of twenty three. They were on
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Speaker 1: an incredible role. They had a good deadline, added Sir
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Speaker 1: Anthony Dominguez and Louis Arland to the bullpen. Shane Bieber
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Speaker 1: potentially to the rotation. He will be back. He's on
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Speaker 1: a rehabilitation assignment right now, coming off Tommy Johnson. I'm
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Speaker 1: a little tempered in my expectations for him because we've
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Speaker 1: seen with Alcndra the difficulties a pitcher can have coming
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Speaker 1: off Tommy john with inconsistency. But Bieber has been very
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Speaker 1: good on his rehab assignment, so all good there. The
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Speaker 1: Blue Jays still are in command in this division. The
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Speaker 1: Red Sox, though, are coming fast. They just swept Carlos
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Speaker 1: Correa and the Astros at Fenway Park. They're seven to
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Speaker 1: one in their last eight home series. They've been really good,
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Speaker 1: and they've done this with Giolito and Brian Bao kind
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Speaker 1: of coming into their own in the rotation, with Roman
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Speaker 1: Anthony emerging as a star, Trevor Story bouncing back, a
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Speaker 1: lot of good things happening. The team that I'm questioning
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Speaker 1: in this division, frankly is the New York Yankees. And
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Speaker 1: we've seen with the Yankees some really interesting things. To
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Speaker 1: say the least, I think their fans would have a
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Speaker 1: few other choice words for that besides interesting. They were
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Speaker 1: just swept by the Marlins in Miami. Swept by the
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Speaker 1: Marlins coming off their deadline high in which most observers,
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Speaker 1: including myself, thought their deadline was really good. Well, you
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Speaker 1: get swept by the Marlins, things aren't so great. And
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Speaker 1: listen to what Derek Jeter had to say on the
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Speaker 1: Fox broadcast Saturday, and he talked about the Yankees. His
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Speaker 1: former team Alex Rodriguez talked about the Yankees. What they
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Speaker 1: said was largely what I wrote about I don't know
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Speaker 1: two weeks ago, relative to the Yankees and the lack
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Speaker 1: of accountability regarding their sloppy play. Here's Jeter, listen up.
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Speaker 2: They make way too many mistakes, way too many mistakes,
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Speaker 2: and you can't get away making that number of mistakes
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Speaker 2: against great teams. It just doesn't happen. You can't continue
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Speaker 2: to do it. You have to clean it up. I mean,
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Speaker 2: it's that simple. There's no excuses. You have to play better.
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Speaker 2: If you don't play better, you're not going to go
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Speaker 2: very far.
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Speaker 1: Now, the Yankees, if you go to Fangrafts this morning,
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Speaker 1: still have an eighty eight percent chance of making the
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Speaker 1: play eight percent. So they're looking pretty good. But they
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Speaker 1: might not have one of the home field advantage playoff spots,
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Speaker 1: the home field advantage playoffs spot the top seed. They're
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Speaker 1: looking at the fifth seed right now, and maybe the
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Speaker 1: sixth the way the Red Sox are coming. So, yes,
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Speaker 1: the Yankees still look good for the playoffs, but I'm
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Speaker 1: not even so sure that is secure. The way they're playing.
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Speaker 1: I want to show you the wildcard standings now in
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Speaker 1: the American League, because they're getting rather I don't know
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Speaker 1: tight to say the least. In the wildcard standings, you've
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Speaker 1: got the Red Sox with a two game lead, the
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Speaker 1: Yankees with just a half game lead over the Mariners
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Speaker 1: for the third spot, and then the Rangers two games
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Speaker 1: back of the Mariners, two and a half back of
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Speaker 1: the Yankees. Now, I know when Fangress does their playoff
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Speaker 1: odds and calculations, it's based on strength of schedule, strength
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Speaker 1: of roster, how a team is playing. It's all formula.
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Speaker 1: But if you're watching the games, if you're watching the
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Speaker 1: way the Yankees are playing, I don't know that you're
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Speaker 1: thinking two and a half game lead over the Texas Rangers,
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Speaker 1: who are starting to play better, who acquired Merrill Kelly
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Speaker 1: at the deadline, strengthening their great strength, their starting pitching
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Speaker 1: and their rotation and bullpen overall, And then you wonder
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Speaker 1: are they going to be able to hang on the
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Speaker 1: New York Yankees. I'm not sure the answer to that
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Speaker 1: is yes. It's going to be a very interesting couple
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Speaker 1: of months. Luis Hell came back yesterday. He was inconsistent,
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Speaker 1: not great, not surprised in coming off an injury. This
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Speaker 1: is what happens. And the Yankees, like most teams, did
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Speaker 1: not add a starter at the deadline. So could they
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Speaker 1: be the odd team out come October? In the American League?
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Speaker 1: I believe they can be, and they need to start
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Speaker 1: playing better and they need to start doing it quickly. Now,
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Speaker 1: the American League is a much different situation than the
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Speaker 1: National In the American League, we still have I'm sorry,
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Speaker 1: the National League is a much different situation than the
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Speaker 1: American Let's get this straight. In the National League, you
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Speaker 1: have races that are essentially decided. In the American League,
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Speaker 1: we still have some question in the AL East, some
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Speaker 1: question in the AL West. Right the Astros lead the
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Speaker 1: Mariners by I think two and a half games. The
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Speaker 1: Rangers are about four and a half back. There's still
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Speaker 1: some things going on there. In the National League, we
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Speaker 1: have the playoff teams decided. We don't have the division
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Speaker 1: races decided. And that is what's so interesting in the
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Speaker 1: NL right now. The drama in the NL, as I said,
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Speaker 1: is in the divisions. The Mets just a half game
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Speaker 1: behind the Phillies, the Cubs two games behind the Brewers
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Speaker 1: and the Padres now just three games behind the Dodgers,
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Speaker 1: and the Padres, of course, have loaded up in a
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Speaker 1: big way. The Dodgers didn't do much at the deadline,
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Speaker 1: but they've injured players coming back, injured players who are
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Speaker 1: back kind of trying to find their form, Struggling players
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Speaker 1: like Freddie Freeman coming into their own a little bit again.
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Speaker 1: Monkey bets were still waiting for him to ignite. So
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Speaker 1: these races are going to be fascinating down the stretch,
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Speaker 1: and it all revolves around seating and home field advantage
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Speaker 1: for the top two teams. All of that. I'm not
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Speaker 1: sure how it's going to play out, but it's going
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Speaker 1: to be really interesting. The only possible wild card scenario
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Speaker 1: you have is the Reds. The Reds are four games
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Speaker 1: back of the Padres. I don't see that happening. I
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Speaker 1: watched the Reds in Bristol, Tennessee the last couple of
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Speaker 1: days and offensively they are still just way short. So
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Speaker 1: each race will have a life of its own. In
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Speaker 1: the NL East, the Padres, I'm sorry in the analyst,
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Speaker 1: the Phillies just adding Johan Durant closer. Finally, the Phillies
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Speaker 1: have again a big time closer, and we saw in
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Speaker 1: his first couple of games the impact Duran can have.
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Speaker 1: And I'm not just talking about his entrance music at
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Speaker 1: Citizens Bank Park. He is a bona fide, legit lid
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Speaker 1: inning weapon. He changes the Phillies. Phillies still have some
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Speaker 1: offensive questions, but they've added Harrison Bader that's going to
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Speaker 1: help them. The Mets still like the Mets. Some people
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Speaker 1: believe the Mets are a team still capable of going
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Speaker 1: to the World Series. I wonder about their rotation. They're
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Speaker 1: okay with Senga and Peterson and Manaya, but Holmes is
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Speaker 1: fading a little bit now. Frankie Montas we saw that
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Speaker 1: act yesterday, I don't know that we're going to see
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Speaker 1: it again for a while. They have some prospects that
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Speaker 1: they can bring up Nolan MacLean, Brandon Sproute, but their rotation,
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Speaker 1: in my view, is a little bit shaky. They fix
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Speaker 1: their bullpen at the deadline with Hellsley and company. They're
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Speaker 1: going to be good in the bullpen, no doubt about that.
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Speaker 1: Their offense has the capability of being really good. But
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Speaker 1: the nun least is going to be a dog fight
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Speaker 1: until the end. Same with the NL Central the Brewers.
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Speaker 1: Here's some astonishing things about the Brewers. Now, Okay, over
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Speaker 1: the weekend, they swept the Nationals thirty eight runs in
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Speaker 1: the three games. It's almost thirteen runs per game. Right now.
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Speaker 1: The Brewers, the Milwaukee Brewers, the team that is light
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Speaker 1: on power, is fourth in the major leagues in run
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Speaker 1: per game, fourth in scoring. It's incredible. They're twenty second
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Speaker 1: in home runs per game. So they're doing it in
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Speaker 1: their Brewers' way, contact and all the different things that
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Speaker 1: they do on the basis. It's really impressive. They're also
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Speaker 1: second in rotation e Ray, so the Cubs are going
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Speaker 1: to have their hands full trying to catch the Brewers.
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Speaker 1: They didn't add a starter at the deadline. We're going
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Speaker 1: to be questioning their rotation until the end. Two and
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Speaker 1: then there is the NL West, in which the Padres
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Speaker 1: have added and added and added. We've seen them address
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Speaker 1: numerous holes their offense. Loriano and O'Hearn coming over from Baltimore.
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Speaker 1: They're bullpen Mason Miller, their rotation, JP Sears and Nester
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Speaker 1: Cortez Junior. They are looking like a team now that
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Speaker 1: has solved almost all of their problems Freddy for meen
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Speaker 1: coming over to catch. So they look like a team
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Speaker 1: that is pretty complete right now, a team with a
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Speaker 1: very easy schedule going forward the rest of the season,
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Speaker 1: a team that looks capable to me of catching the Dodgers.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna see how it plays out, and we're gonna
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Speaker 1: see if the Dodgers can finally turn it on, because
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Speaker 1: they have not turned it on the whole season. They've
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Speaker 1: been kind of coasting. They know they're going to be
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Speaker 1: in the playoffs. They've got a bit of a World
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Speaker 1: Series Championship hangover, just from the way the pitching is used.
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Speaker 1: It always happens that way. When the pitchers are used
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Speaker 1: so heavily in October, it kind of carries over into
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Speaker 1: the next year. We've seen that with their injuries. So
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Speaker 1: the division races in the NL, they're going to be
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Speaker 1: fascinating and they're going to be a lot of fun
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Speaker 1: trend in the game, something else going on. And today
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Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about covering the trade deadline. A
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Speaker 1: lot of people are always curious about this, what it's like,
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Speaker 1: So I'll try to explain as best I can. This
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Speaker 1: trade deadline was somewhat unusual. We saw fifty trades five
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Speaker 1: zero fifty trades in the last thirty one hours. Now,
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Speaker 1: that's a lot, especially since many executives were predicting about
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Speaker 1: a month out that this deadline was going to be
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Speaker 1: a dud. Fifty trades in thirty one hours. Now. What
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Speaker 1: I often tell people about the deadline is that when
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Speaker 1: you're covering it, when I'm covering it anyway, I feel
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Speaker 1: like I'm drowning. There is so much happening, so much
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Speaker 1: I'm looking into so much I'm writing. I'm not just
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Speaker 1: reporting transactions on X. I'm writing stories, often in collaboration
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Speaker 1: with other writers at The Athletic. They're not always long stories,
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Speaker 1: but we're trying to give insight into what is happening,
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Speaker 1: into discussions. We wrote about the Mason Miller trade a
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Speaker 1: couple of days before it happened. We said the Padres
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Speaker 1: were interested. We wrote about the Astros pursuing Dylan Cees.
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Speaker 1: All of these different things are going on, so I'm
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Speaker 1: texting constantly, not just with sources, but with writers on
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Speaker 1: our staff, trying to figure out what the heck is
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Speaker 1: going on, how to proceed, what to do, what to report.
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Speaker 1: And I'll also make or take an occasional phone call.
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Speaker 1: It's not often, but once or twice, three times, four
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Speaker 1: times in those last two days or so, I'll be
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Speaker 1: on the phone because I need some specific information or
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Speaker 1: something that maybe can't be related on text. I don't
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Speaker 1: have many actual conversations in those two days before the
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Speaker 1: deadline or before the deadline, I don't even really even
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Speaker 1: talk to my wife. So basically I don't leave the house.
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Speaker 1: And at one point on deadline day, and this is
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Speaker 1: a funny story, I got up to get something to eat.
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Speaker 1: It was many hours into it, I hadn't eat.
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Speaker 5: I get up to get something to eat, bring my
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Speaker 5: laptop into the kitchen, put it down on the table,
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Speaker 5: walk over to the refrigerator. I walked back to the
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Speaker 5: laptop and in that time, Brian McTaggart of MLB dot
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Speaker 5: com he covers the Astros, reported this The Astros have
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Speaker 5: agreed to a deal to reacquire Carlos Kara in a
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Speaker 5: trade with the Twins so.
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Speaker 1: Basically walked away. It could not have been even thirty seconds.
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Speaker 1: And look what happened. That's how frantic that last day was,
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Speaker 1: and it was totally crazy. Now people often ask me
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Speaker 1: if I sleep in those final days before the deadline,
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Speaker 1: and the answer should be yes. Because the deals don't
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Speaker 1: happen round the clock. There is I don't know, a
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Speaker 1: five or six hour period generally speaking, most nights. Sometimes
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Speaker 1: they do happen around the clock, but it's pretty rare.
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Speaker 1: There's usually a five or six seven hour period where
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Speaker 1: it's quiet, or at least they don't have to be
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Speaker 1: pursuing anything. The problem for me is I got so
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Speaker 1: much adrenaline flowing. I'm thinking about so much my head
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Speaker 1: is kind of exploding that it's really hard to sleep.
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Speaker 1: So the reason I'm not sleeping is more so the
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Speaker 1: excitement and the anxiety I guess you'd call it, than
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Speaker 1: actual things happening and actually not having time to sleep.
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Speaker 1: There's time. I just have a really tough time shutting
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Speaker 1: my mind down.
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Speaker 4: Now.
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Speaker 1: This is my twenty fifth year as a National Baseball writer.
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Speaker 1: Every year when it's over, I think to myself, Man,
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Speaker 1: I can't cover another deadline. I can't go through this again.
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Speaker 1: It's not physically hard in the sense there I'm doing anything.
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Speaker 1: I'm basically just sitting at a desk or standing at
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Speaker 1: a desk. I have a standing desk. But it's hard
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Speaker 1: in the sense that you're locked in for so long
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Speaker 1: and it's mentally draining. So I always say that, and
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Speaker 1: of course I keep coming back for more. Now I
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Speaker 1: can't say the process is fun, not when it's so
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Speaker 1: intense and difficult and exhausting. But the action, well, fans,
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Speaker 1: media executives, managers, coaches, players, that's what we all live for, right,
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Speaker 1: We all love the deadline and all the crazy things
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Speaker 1: that can happen. And I tell you, guys, every year
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Speaker 1: I must stud like a broken record. There will be
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Speaker 1: things that happen that make your head spin that you
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Speaker 1: didn't anticipate, that you didn't know was coming this year.
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Speaker 1: What happened that fell along those lines. The Rafael Devers
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Speaker 1: trade for sure, the Carlos Corea trade for sure, Mason
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Speaker 1: Miller and the Twins deconstruction, so all that stuff. That's
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Speaker 1: why we keep so much interest in the deadline, why
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Speaker 1: we have so much fun with it. Now I do
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Speaker 1: love looking back and writing about what happened, and that
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Speaker 1: can be in the immediate aftermath, in the weeks and
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Speaker 1: months ahead, even the years down the line, and after
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Speaker 1: this particular deadline passed. Dan Hayes and I Dan Hayes,
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Speaker 1: the Twins writer from The Athletic, we combined on this story.
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Speaker 1: Inside the final hours of the Carlos Korea ear and
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Speaker 1: the start of a rebuild for the Twins, we had
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Speaker 1: some information that we thought we wanted to get out
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Speaker 1: there immediately. There was a very interesting narrative around the Twins,
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Speaker 1: so Dan and I wrote that story. We combined on it.
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Speaker 1: We got great editing from Mark Kurrigg and Chris Strauss,
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Speaker 1: two of our editors, because frankly, we were fried and
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Speaker 1: it wasn't as coherent as it should have been, so
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Speaker 1: they helped us put it together and did a great job.
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Speaker 1: And that night I ended it up, I don't know,
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Speaker 1: going to bed at something like three am Eastern with
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Speaker 1: a six am or so wake up call to go
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Speaker 1: to Bristol, Tennessee for the Speedway Classic the next day.
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Speaker 1: So even the night after the deadline, I didn't really sleep.
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Speaker 1: But at the same time, this is what we live for,
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Speaker 1: right and after this show and after I write one
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Speaker 1: more thing today. Yes, I'm gonna finally take some downtime,
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Speaker 1: take some time off, and I'll be back with you.
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Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe a week or so. Maybe I
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Speaker 1: won't come back. Maybe I'll just be too tired. Nah, doubtful.
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Speaker 1: Love the deadline, love reporting on it, writing about it.
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Speaker 1: It just takes a little bit out of it. All right,
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Speaker 1: All right. Time Now for Grill and Ken, the part
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18:28
Speaker 1: is Cohen the better owner in New York and maybe
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Speaker 1: the best? Well, I would say right now, he is
18:35
Speaker 1: the better owner in New York. Now, how Steinbrenner gets
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Speaker 1: a little bit of a bad rap at times for
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Speaker 1: And the Mets are running right now like the way
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Speaker 1: of high revenue team should run. Their model is the Dodgers,
19:15
Speaker 1: and they're getting real close to being what the Dodgers
19:18
Speaker 1: are in LA, not just a team that spends money
19:21
Speaker 1: on payroll, but a team that also develops farm system
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Speaker 1: products and gets the most out of young players as well.
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Speaker 1: The Mets were in great position at this deadline to
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Speaker 1: make the trade they did because their farm system is
19:34
Speaker 1: finally at the point where it's producing players other teams want. So. Yes,
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Speaker 1: he is the best owner in New York right now,
19:43
Speaker 1: the best owner in baseball, that's debatable. Certainly you can
19:47
Speaker 1: make the case he is. Obviously in LA, You've got
19:51
Speaker 1: a pretty good owner there too, Mark Walter with the
19:53
Speaker 1: Gouggenheim Group, and there are some others as well. But
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Speaker 1: Cohen has done a really good job transforming the Mets
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Speaker 1: from a team that was kind of an industry laughingstock
20:02
Speaker 1: into one that is absolutely formidable and feared the next question.
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Speaker 1: This one comes from let's see now Mike g who
20:10
Speaker 1: asked was a karma for the Cubs to blow eighth
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Speaker 1: and ninth inning leads in back to back games this weekend.
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Speaker 1: Fielbarr and Palencia have been nailed, so nothing against them,
20:18
Speaker 1: but they needed more help. Yes, they did strike out
20:24
Speaker 1: in their quest for a late inning reliever. Now, the
20:26
Speaker 1: bigger quest was for a starting pitcher, preferably a controllable
20:30
Speaker 1: starting pitcher, and they didn't get that, and they didn't
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Speaker 1: get the reliever. The prices for relievers were admittedly high.
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Speaker 1: The bullpen, though for the most part with the Cubs,
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Speaker 1: has not been a problem this year, and they did
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Speaker 1: add Andrew Kittrick, who is a quality reliever, and they've
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Speaker 1: had a pretty good run with what they've had, and
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Speaker 1: Craig Counsel does a remarkable job as a manager putting
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Speaker 1: the pieces of a bullpen together. So that, to me
20:56
Speaker 1: is still not my biggest concern with the Cubs. My
20:59
Speaker 1: biggest concern is the rotation and will it be enough,
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Speaker 1: Will they get anything back, or will they get any
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Speaker 1: contribution from Asad Tyane is coming back, but everybody else
21:10
Speaker 1: has to stay healthy because they're in a kind of
21:13
Speaker 1: compromise spot Like a lot of teams, if one of
21:15
Speaker 1: their starters goes down, they didn't want to pay the
21:18
Speaker 1: price for a controllable starter. No team did. Really, the
21:22
Speaker 1: best starters traded were Rentals, Merrill Kelly, Shane Bieber, and
21:28
Speaker 1: I'm missing one, but oh, Charlie Morton, I would say
21:31
Speaker 1: would fit in that list. So those are the guys
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Speaker 1: who were traded. Our contrad didn't go, Mitch Kewar didn't go,
21:37
Speaker 1: Mackenzie Gore didn't go, and on and on. All right, finally,
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Speaker 1: let's go. We got one more question, at least, let's see.
21:43
Speaker 1: Uncle KRV asked, will the Astros be out of first
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Speaker 1: place by the end of this week? Also, I think
21:49
Speaker 1: they will be under five hundred by the end of August.
21:52
Speaker 1: I don't know who you're root for, uncle KRV, but
21:55
Speaker 1: it sounds like it's a little wishful thinking on your part.
21:58
Speaker 1: Maybe you're a Mariners Fanngers fan. The Mariners certainly have
22:03
Speaker 1: gotten better with the additions of a Johanno Suarez and
22:05
Speaker 1: Josh Naylor, and of course Caleb Ferguson in their bullpen.
22:10
Speaker 1: The Rangers got better getting Merrill Kelly as I just mentioned,
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Speaker 1: and making some bullpen improvements as well. Do I think
22:19
Speaker 1: either of those teams is going to catch the Astros.
22:21
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. And the Astros still have fromber Valdez
22:24
Speaker 1: and Hunter Brown at the top of the rotation. They
22:27
Speaker 1: still have one of the best bullpens in the league.
22:29
Speaker 1: Jeremy Pagna is back. Now, They've got Correa, who has
22:32
Speaker 1: not had a great year by any stretch of the imagination.
22:35
Speaker 1: But they still have that Astros thing about them, and
22:40
Speaker 1: until they are knocked off, until proven otherwise, they must
22:44
Speaker 1: be considered the favorite. And likewise, until the Mariners show
22:49
Speaker 1: that they can be the kind of team that wins
22:53
Speaker 1: a division that is really nails down the stretch, it's
22:58
Speaker 1: hard to have faith that they can do that. We're
23:00
Speaker 1: looking at track records, we're looking at history here. Suarez
23:03
Speaker 1: has come over, he has not made a huge difference
23:05
Speaker 1: so far, two for seventeen with a double. Now you
23:08
Speaker 1: might say ken small sample size correct small sample size
23:12
Speaker 1: rental players when you acquire them, they are operating in
23:15
Speaker 1: a small sample environment. So I'm sure Suarez will get
23:19
Speaker 1: it back going again. But it's going to be really
23:21
Speaker 1: interesting to see if they can maintain where they are
23:25
Speaker 1: and just kind of get to the point where they
23:29
Speaker 1: are a real threat to the Astros in that al West.
23:32
Speaker 1: All right, let's take one more question before we go.
23:35
Speaker 1: This one comes from d Train riot Maker. I still
23:38
Speaker 1: like the Shelby Miller edition. He isn't Duran or Bernard, etc.
23:42
Speaker 1: But he has had a good year as long as
23:44
Speaker 1: he can remain healthy. Shelby Miller went to the Brewers.
23:47
Speaker 1: Shelby Miller has a right form strain. He's working his
23:50
Speaker 1: way back on a rehab assignment. He has not been
23:53
Speaker 1: activated yet. The Brewers when they made this move, that
23:57
Speaker 1: was a serious gamble. They took on the Jordan Montgomery
24:01
Speaker 1: part of the contract essentially paid two and a half
24:04
Speaker 1: million dollars, and that is okay. They didn't have to
24:08
Speaker 1: sacrifice any prospects, and it's worth the risk of taking
24:11
Speaker 1: on a Miller. But you do not know if he's
24:15
Speaker 1: going to really be able to contribute for you. So
24:17
Speaker 1: that's the concern there. If Shelby Miller comes back, all good,
24:21
Speaker 1: But we'll see if he comes back and what he
24:23
Speaker 1: is when he comes back. All right, I want to
24:25
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