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Pete Crow-Armstrong’s WALK-OFF HR for Cubs, Dodgers BAD bullpen, FIXING Paul Skenes · Ross and Rizzo Unfiltered

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  Speaker 1: That's to Rudy, he's gone game.
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  Speaker 2: PCA walks it up in the tent and the Cubs
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  Speaker 2: knock out the Sucks in ten. It began with a homer,
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  Speaker 2: He ended it with a homer. It began with a homer,
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  Speaker 2: It ended with a Homer PC's first career walk off
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  Speaker 2: home run crosstown rival after tough series versus the Cardinals
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  Speaker 2: over the weekend Aaron water Show Weekend, Wrigley was rocking.
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  Speaker 2: Cubs are up early in that game, they go down,
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  Speaker 2: they respond. What a moment at That's like one of
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  Speaker 2: PCA's I feel like gonna be his defining moments. You're
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  Speaker 2: just gonna see forever throughout his career.
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  Speaker 1: You're talking about an MVP moment. I mean, like who
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  Speaker 1: starts and ends a game? Like, no, it's over, that's
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  Speaker 1: in your you know you're controlling the game. Yeah. I
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  Speaker 1: just was in the in there this weekend doing the
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  Speaker 1: Sunday game for ABC and ESPN, and what an amazing
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  Speaker 1: time in there. Right now, Wrigley's rocking. Uh they did
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  Speaker 1: have a series against the Cards, but wow.
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  Speaker 2: I was laying down. I was laying down in bed.
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  Speaker 2: I was watching on my phone because we were going
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  Speaker 2: to sleep, and I see uh him hit that, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, oh my god, and what what are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Jolted up. I was like, you got your PC ages,
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  Speaker 2: He'll walk off.
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  Speaker 1: Look at this place. I told you I saw him
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  Speaker 1: in the cage. I said, Bro, my favorite bat flip
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  Speaker 1: or my favorite you know Selly right now is like
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  Speaker 1: the bat's too hot, you know when he drops it
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  Speaker 1: in the bath.
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  Speaker 2: That was.
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  Speaker 1: That moment that was sick. You know.
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  Speaker 2: I want to just go back a little bit into
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  Speaker 2: that game and or or even just what happened unfolded
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  Speaker 2: over the weekend, Dansby Swanson going down right and the
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  Speaker 2: oblique injury, and he's been raking since the end of June.
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  Speaker 2: He's been one of their better hitters on the team.
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  Speaker 2: His defense as follows him and Nico up the middle
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  Speaker 2: or as the best in the league, the best him
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  Speaker 2: in the league, and Ego just goes over to shortstop says, yep,
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  Speaker 2: I got it, no worries, I got you Dansby, I
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  Speaker 2: got you boys. Four hits right gets the tying game,
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  Speaker 2: tying hit in time and just watching that, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I love Nico. I've saw him come up, I've seen
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  Speaker 2: him blossom into the player he is, but just no bigger,
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  Speaker 2: better guy in the moment coming up and even before
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  Speaker 2: that PCA with that bat off Richards, he goes to
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  Speaker 2: two strikes, he's working them away and he just shoots
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  Speaker 2: something to left. He's not trying to do too much.
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  Speaker 2: So watching that and seeing his evolution, he just keeps
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  Speaker 2: getting better every bat. The bat versus the lefty, he
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  Speaker 2: takes the first two pitches, both balls. Then he takes
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  Speaker 2: a strike pretty much right down the middle of the fastball.
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  Speaker 2: And for me watching that, that's just one of my
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  Speaker 2: prouder moments watching him because seeing him take that, I'm
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  Speaker 2: all right, now, he's gauged the fastball. He hasn't seen
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  Speaker 2: this left yet. He's not trying to do too much.
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  Speaker 2: And then the guy throws him somewhat of a hanging
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  Speaker 2: slider and he just absolutely annihilates it.
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  Speaker 1: That comes off Yeah, and that comes offenses is clicking
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  Speaker 1: on all cylinders. Like you said, dancing going down is
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  Speaker 1: a big blow. But Nico fills in and the Cubs
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  Speaker 1: just knowing some stats like they got the eighteen multi
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  Speaker 1: run come from behind wins, you know like that, that's
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  Speaker 1: like fifth in Major League Baseball. These guys they don't
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  Speaker 1: give up, especially.
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  Speaker 2: When I know they're leading the league in walkoffs as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So, like they about saying, when you're at home and
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  Speaker 3: that crowds behind you, it gets you a little tighter
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  Speaker 3: when you're on the other side, and those guys.
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  Speaker 1: The focus just takes you up to another level, as
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  Speaker 1: we know. But cool moment they have there.
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  Speaker 2: Frost, you're you're a manager and I text you last
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  Speaker 2: night and I think I can manage right watching games?
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  Speaker 2: Why are you not walking him right there? I don't
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  Speaker 2: care if it's left he's hitting three hundred with a
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  Speaker 2: nine hundred plus ops off lefties to start the inning
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  Speaker 2: and extras. The White Sox don't score. Why why do
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  Speaker 2: managers not decide to just put the first guy it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't even matter who it is. But then PCA comes
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  Speaker 2: up the front runner for MVP, the guy in Chicago guy. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and I know say it hits lefties, well, but you
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  Speaker 2: got to play for the double play ball there the.
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  Speaker 1: Run at first?
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  Speaker 2: Does the runner at first doesn't matter?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's the that's the tough calls as
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  Speaker 1: a manager, right, Like you're trying to who was available
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  Speaker 1: in the bullpen for will vena bull and the White Sox.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe they thought their best matchup was the lefty out
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  Speaker 1: of the bullpen that you know, I was watching as well,
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  Speaker 1: but not man to the team, not deep diving, but
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  Speaker 1: it definitely you know, hindsight when you're in that seat
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  Speaker 1: is so some you don't get to to be a
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  Speaker 1: part of. You just got to pull the trigger of
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  Speaker 1: what you do. But I'm with you. It's it's tough
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  Speaker 1: to watch the MVP. Is that show? If that show,
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  Speaker 1: Hey are you Walking? Show? Hey o Tani? And in
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  Speaker 1: that because of the names, a little bit bigger, the
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  Speaker 1: resume is a little bit deeper and longer. I think
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  Speaker 1: you would, you know, I think I think you would,
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  Speaker 1: So you know, you got to ima that I feel like,
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  Speaker 1: but he has earned it this year for sure. In
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  Speaker 1: extra innings, it really doesn't matter unless it's a really big,
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  Speaker 1: low quality hitter and it's the best matchup you have.
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  Speaker 1: In extra innings, you don't score in the top of
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  Speaker 1: the tent as a White Sox and there's a base open,
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  Speaker 1: you play for the double play, baff you get a
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  Speaker 1: ground ball, there's two outs.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? I don't know. I always
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  Speaker 2: the extra inning strategy for all these teams are always different.
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  Speaker 1: It's not even the double play as much like you,
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  Speaker 1: it is the MVP, the front runner, like you said,
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  Speaker 1: in the lineup, the best player, and I think that's too.
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  Speaker 1: What takes it to another level with Pete is he's
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  Speaker 1: leading off, so it feels like when you're on the
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  Speaker 1: other side those best players. I remember managing against Ronald
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  Speaker 1: Acune Junior when he's leading off and one of the
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  Speaker 1: best players in the game. It's like, bro, this guy
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  Speaker 1: just feels like he's getting nine at bats a game
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  Speaker 1: and you're stressed about it. It's tough when I guys
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  Speaker 1: at the top, it just keeps seemed to coming up
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  Speaker 1: and uh and situations. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean, nice night,
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  Speaker 1: nice night for good.
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  Speaker 2: It's so good for the city. The White Sox are good.
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  Speaker 2: What they're doing this year's in credit. What Will Venable
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  Speaker 2: is doing with that team. I love Will Venable. I
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  Speaker 2: played with him when I was a rookie. I played
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  Speaker 2: with him. I love him, I love his family. I'm
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  Speaker 2: so happy for him, and I mean being so ingrained
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  Speaker 2: in Chicago. I actually am rooting for the White Sox
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  Speaker 2: because their story is so similar to ours years ago.
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  Speaker 1: So what a great Let's let's announce it now. We
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  Speaker 1: will be in Chicago for the Crosstown World Series. If
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  Speaker 1: it happens, gotta be white, let's go.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go well with that. That takes us into another
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  Speaker 2: episode of Ross and Rizzo Unfiltered, where we talked about
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  Speaker 2: weekly about what's going on in baseball. The PCA moment
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  Speaker 2: was such a hot take. Let's just get it right
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  Speaker 2: into it. You just said it too, ros See leading off.
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  Speaker 2: This has been a topic that has been forever. You
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  Speaker 2: want your best players the front of the lineup, right,
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  Speaker 2: And I used to field the Dreams game and Kyle
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  Speaker 2: Schwarber hits a lead off home run. Right, is that
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  Speaker 2: there's no such thing as a wasted home run. But
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  Speaker 2: don't you want your guys hitting home runs with guys
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  Speaker 2: on base? If it's one nothing in a game and
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  Speaker 2: you're the opposing team, all right, that's fine, it's one nothing.
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  Speaker 2: But if Shober comes up with two or three guys
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  Speaker 2: on and it's three nothing or four, that's a dagger
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  Speaker 2: out of the gate. A leadoff homer is not a
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  Speaker 2: dagger out of the gate. PCA had a lead off
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  Speaker 2: homer yesterday. Is like the debate on hitting your guys leadoff.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't love it. I may be
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  Speaker 2: a little old school in this. I know you manage
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  Speaker 2: your your new schooler in it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's how you're, it's how you're. I love your
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  Speaker 1: segue you're so freaking media savvy already. Bro. First you're
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  Speaker 1: doing it. You're locked in. Just segue from leadoff to
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  Speaker 1: the off. First of all, we'll get to the field
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  Speaker 1: of dreams. But uh, going to my manager brain and
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  Speaker 1: talking about you know, being able to lead off your
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  Speaker 1: best player, you know, when you got them one and two,
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  Speaker 1: I think that's what it is. It's that it's for
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  Speaker 1: this last of bat, you know.
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  Speaker 2: It's I had this argument with Joe Matten all the time, right,
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  Speaker 2: and I said, Joe if and even Boonie or or
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  Speaker 2: anyone I talked to about this. If you're relying on
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  Speaker 2: your last at bat to win games, you're not a
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  Speaker 2: good baseball team. You need to win the games early, right,
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  Speaker 2: and then you bury them. And I understand there's games
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  Speaker 2: like this where you want your best players coming up,
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  Speaker 2: but the majority of the season you win these games.
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  Speaker 2: If you're relying on beating the back end of a
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  Speaker 2: bullpen bullpen every game and you need your best player
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  Speaker 2: to come up in the eighth or ninth to win
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  Speaker 2: the game, that's you're you're not in a good spot.
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  Speaker 1: Well, here's what I would say to that is like,
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  Speaker 1: wait till you start coaching junior, and you're like, why
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  Speaker 1: is my son he's the best player, he's not hitting
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  Speaker 1: at the top of the lineup. I want him to
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  Speaker 1: get as most as many at bass, the most of
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  Speaker 1: the bass he can get in this game, because it
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  Speaker 1: impacts the game. Like that's how you think as a manager.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, I want this dude just as many times
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  Speaker 1: getting to the plate, And it's all about how your
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  Speaker 1: roster is shaped and how many guys you have behind him,
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  Speaker 1: Like you got to have some depth. You're not very good.
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  Speaker 1: You're just getting you know when I managed, you know,
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  Speaker 1: not having an MVP type caliber guy. After you guys left,
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  Speaker 1: you start to find out, like who is setting the toe?
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  Speaker 1: I like, I like Nico hitting the top because of
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  Speaker 1: setting the tone in his contact, Like I love his
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  Speaker 1: contact and Shover was a little bit different with the
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  Speaker 1: on base, you know, I think like that's the other
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  Speaker 1: part of the top, and I like speed at the
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  Speaker 1: top of a little old school like that. But Pete
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  Speaker 1: brings all those factors and he's got power, he's got speed,
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  Speaker 1: he's immediate trouble h Schwolber and and Pete to me
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  Speaker 1: are a little bit different in that way.
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  Speaker 2: Totally totally.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a pure slugger where Pete is like he
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  Speaker 1: lead off, yeah, he gets on.
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  Speaker 2: And he's walking now too, man, Yes, yeapressive.
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  Speaker 1: His numbers are crazy, like not chasing, just being there,
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  Speaker 1: like the biggest turnaround and chase rate, swinging that first
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  Speaker 1: pitch and there was walk rate, like you know, that's
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  Speaker 1: when to me, that's when the tables turn a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't I don't think.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think viewers at home understand the adjustments that
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  Speaker 2: Pete has made. I mean, he understood that he was
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  Speaker 2: swinging at a wild rate out of his zone. Two strikes,
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  Speaker 2: just throwing something anywhere and he'll swing. And he understood
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  Speaker 2: that and he started not swinging more and now hitting better.
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  Speaker 2: It's in and he's walking more. He's really bought into
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  Speaker 2: taking pitches and see more pitches and getting into the bat.
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  Speaker 2: It's a very old school approach. It looks like in
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  Speaker 2: the new school era, and I absolutely love it.
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  Speaker 1: Man well, and I think the game changer to me
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  Speaker 1: of guys that really mature as players now a little
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  Speaker 1: bit different than when I was coming up, is taking
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  Speaker 1: a step back and watching the guys that really control
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  Speaker 1: the strike zone and make you throw it in the zone.
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  Speaker 1: Now with all all the stuff you have and the
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  Speaker 1: kind of the lack of command and more of just
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  Speaker 1: stuff that's in the zone or in and out of
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  Speaker 1: the zone, is the game changer right now to me.
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  Speaker 1: And that's I think that's what's taking Pete to the
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  Speaker 1: next level.
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  Speaker 2: The Cubbies are rolling. Man, they they're rolling. I can't
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  Speaker 2: say it enough. Man Jet brings in all those pieces.
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  Speaker 2: It sparks the team. I mean, they may have the
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  Speaker 2: best depth. They may they have right now.
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  Speaker 1: Numbers wise, they have the best bench in the history
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  Speaker 1: of the Cubs organization as far as numbers. That's to me,
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  Speaker 1: that's been the difference maker. Obviously the Bregman pc A
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  Speaker 1: becoming the m v P.
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  Speaker 2: But doing which we would right the team, it's just
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  Speaker 2: the lineup is construction constructed so nicely. In my opinion,
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  Speaker 2: they're there. They can beat you in a their dynamic.
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  Speaker 2: They could beat you in a lot of different ways.
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  Speaker 2: It's not all about the long ball.
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  Speaker 1: I need to I need to. I need to go
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  Speaker 1: back because I got to watch again. Like your media
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  Speaker 1: presence is so much fun for me, Bro, and how
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  Speaker 1: good you are at it. It's the field of dreams
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  Speaker 1: had to be epic and wear it on TV. Tell
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  Speaker 1: me if you're I want to hear about you being
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  Speaker 1: able to be on the other side of it from
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  Speaker 1: a media standpoint and painting this picture and talking through
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  Speaker 1: these Hall of famers coming out in the venue, like
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  Speaker 1: walk me through that. That had to be amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Well, first off, I'm excited to go. You know, as
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  Speaker 2: a players, you fly in and that excitement doesn't really
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  Speaker 2: happen until you get there and you see it right
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  Speaker 2: doing a little game ROSSI you did the field, the
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  Speaker 2: dream being managing.
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  Speaker 1: And then classic I was a part of the lot with.
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  Speaker 2: So But for me being there, first off, I'm with
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  Speaker 2: Barry Bonds and Albert Pouhols and El Duncan is amazing
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  Speaker 2: at leading us. She's taught me so much from just
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  Speaker 2: leading the panel and the Netflix crew. You roll in
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  Speaker 2: there and it's it's you see the whole movie set.
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  Speaker 2: You're literally in the middle of a cornfield. Our set
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  Speaker 2: was in left field in literally in the middle of
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  Speaker 2: corn right, So just seeing the hole, what Major League
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  Speaker 2: Baseball did with that stadium, the permanent structures now it's
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  Speaker 2: at and then literally goosebumps and chill seeing Schworeber announce
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  Speaker 2: all the Hall of Famers and seeing them walk out
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  Speaker 2: of the ivy was just it was scripted.
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  Speaker 1: I it was.
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  Speaker 2: It was literally I said it on there. It was
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  Speaker 2: a cinema. It was literally a movie.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. It's a special place. And I feel like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: watching the after like the cliffs at dirt and dad jokes. Bro,
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  Speaker 1: those were those were Is that your idea? Those are great?
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  Speaker 1: Netflix does a good job, but like making it a
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  Speaker 1: show entertainment more than just like all this baseball facts.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, with you, here we go.
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  Speaker 2: What do you call a single kernel of corn? I
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  Speaker 2: don't know?
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  Speaker 1: A unicorn?
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  Speaker 2: And tonight that's what you were mister. So here is
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  Speaker 2: a Netflix special hot dog some Iowa's famous corn. Do
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  Speaker 2: you know what we call that?
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  Speaker 1: What do we call this? A corn dog? We gotta
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  Speaker 1: get some dag. It's a dad joke segment on here
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  Speaker 1: for you, bro. That's right up your alley. That's that's uh.
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  Speaker 1: It reminds me of your dad and being around him. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Man, those I'm telling you, Bro, those postgame interviews are
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  Speaker 2: not easy, and they had asked afterwards to present Netflix.
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  Speaker 2: They do the letterman jacket for the MVP of the game,
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  Speaker 2: and then with the specialty game, the corn and the
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  Speaker 2: hot Dog. So Laurence Shahati and I were talking before
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  Speaker 2: and how we want to kind of do it because
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  Speaker 2: she was asking the questions and I was going to
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  Speaker 2: come in and I was like, man, what about some
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  Speaker 2: dad like corny dad jokes, right? And we look them
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  Speaker 2: up and yeah, I mean the Unicorn one. It couldn't
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  Speaker 2: have been literally, like I said, cinema movie, it couldn't
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  Speaker 2: have been scripted any better. Where a dear friend, a
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  Speaker 2: close friend of you and I friend of the program,
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  Speaker 2: Kyle schober Winds, the MVP hits two home runs, so
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  Speaker 2: it's a lot easier to be corny with him than
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  Speaker 2: someone you don't really know. But yeah, man, that.
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  Speaker 1: Was that was cool. Well let's talk about We've got
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  Speaker 1: another huge moment in Major League Baseball in Chicago. Joshua
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  Speaker 1: Biez three home runs to start his career. Are you
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  Speaker 1: kidding me? How about that?
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  Speaker 2: I see I see the headline Bias hits three home
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  Speaker 2: runs in Chicago, and I'm like, ooh, Hobby's back right,
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: And obviously it's on the wrong end, but man, bro
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: major league debut. Kids grind it in the minor leagues too.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: Twenty five, he's still relatively young. But how how cool
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: was that when he did get out You saw Cubs
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: fans and Cardinals fans coming together, which you don't see
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: very often, giving him a round of applause and just
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: respecting greatness in what they saw.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, that's the one thing I really do feel
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: like you know, most fans, but especially in Chicago, being
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: around that city for a long time, they love good baseball,
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: they love good stories. And when you see this young
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: man first one, first of all, balls up out over maybe.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: A little, I mean these are good. I mean yeah, ok, the.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: First one, and then pulling the change up and then
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: you're like, oh, yeah, last, I'm gonna go Avo Taco,
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: Like what what's going on right now? The place was rocking,
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: and he had like thirty family friends and family in town.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: Like it was. It was a special special moment in
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: that place. And we called the game the next day
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: and he went over. But it was, uh, we were
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: talking about he's got a lot of swing and miss
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: in his game in the minor leagues and doesn't walk
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: a whole lot. So that's one of those things. As
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: he's mature, he's going to have to learn to kind
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: of take a take a page out of PCA's book
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: and control the strike song. Learning a little bit. The
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: juices are flowing early in your career, but make the
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: adjustments when the league starts to make his adjustments. But man,
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: what a great story. That was fun and so so Uh.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: There's nothing better than Yeah, there's nothing better than special
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: things happening at Wrigley Field, right, three home run walk off.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: It's just that, it's it's just it's storybook there. It's
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: it's it's the romanticism of how can you say baseball
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: is a romantic partner.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: That's right, That's right. And Bro, I mean that's history,
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: like the fact that he did something that's never been
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: done to me. Crazy, Yeah, in regular I mean at
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: regular flying over Yeah, oh yeah, it was loud.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Bro was a little dicey, but that's it was a
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: little cloudy.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: But it's not your typical August day, but it was.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: It was nice. Speaking of three home runs, you hit
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: three home runs once in your career for the Junks,
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: the New York Chunk Is, how was that? Why? Like,
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: I mean I've hit two not just not about me,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: but I hit I've hit two a couple of times,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: but three.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: Is like, Bro, three is did you have a chance
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: to hit four? No? I hit my third in my
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: last Well, yeah, you did the hard way. You always
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: have a chance to hit four of us when you
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: get four at bats. I know you didn't always get
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: four at bats.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: For my ass shipped for my but especially for my bro.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: My last at bat at Yankee Stadium, I pulled the
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: ball foul and it was down the line, foul the
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: whole way. And it was against the Orioles, right and
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: Hyder Brandon Hyde is the manager, and I'm just standing
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: in the batter's like, oh, that's foul. And then all
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: of a sudden it starts pushing back and I'm not kidding.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: It pushed back so late. At the last second I
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: even run and if you see me, I'm like, oh
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: my god, that's a home run. It was like it
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: was those three home runs were the Yankee Stadium specialty
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: of home runs for lefties. Like they just got over
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: and I was, I was three home runs in a game.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: I have the jersey in my office back at home
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: in Florida. I mean, I'll take it any way.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: You can sick well actually, let's let's let me interject
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: and get off script for a minute. I had Yankee
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Seattle and said something absolutely stupid on TV where we
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: had been talking about how short, what a great homer
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: field Yankee Stadium was, and uh, you know, when you're
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: on air and calling game, sometimes you're just kind of
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: rolling and you say stuff that that. Like afterwards, you're
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: kind of like, what what Why did I just say that? Yeah? Idiot?
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: What an idiot? And uh, Julio rod Regal, we talk
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: about how short boards wasn't right, and he crushed the
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: ball to right for a home run, and I come
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: out and say, probably not a home run in many parts.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: And then everybody blasted me on social media, going, it's
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: twenty eight out of thirty, you idiot. Some guy called
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: me a fucking moron, and D's like, I love you too, bro,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: love you so many angry people.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's all right.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: It was it was, it was it.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: Anytime a ball goes out the right field the Yankee Stadium,
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: it's the easy uh cheap right, yeah yeah right, But
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: no one knowing, none of these pitchers or none of
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: these commentators say those balls a left center, dead center.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: That aren't going out. Uh, they don't say anything about
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: how big it is out there, so it's just the
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: easy short ports are right.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: We might have to get like some kind of sponsor
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: for like dumb things ross he says on air, too
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: pretty good. Yeah, we we got to try to catch each.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: Shout out to Jason Bennetti. He covers for me hard. Yeah,
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: he's the best.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Great, that's great.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: Need So, I know we got off to talking about
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: good moments with pc A Baiez hitting the three home runs,
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: but kind of a downer moment is theirs on the Diamondbacks.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: And I know we have the tape of Tory Leavello
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: postgame interview putting Kettle Marte on the restricted list.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Let's take a listen. You seem a little emotional. Are
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: you worried?
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: No, not really. I just love him and I care
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: for him. Be okay, he is fine, Fine, he is fine.
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: I want you guys to know that I just careful.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: Does everybody in that room?
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, tough situation there, especially with the Diamondbacks.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Such a talented player. You know you worry about. We
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: hope everything's okay with the family and all that stuff.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: It's it's scary moments because it is your family. And
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: I know Tori well. He was our bench coach in
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Boston we won in twenty thirteen, and he's so connected
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: to his players and it really pours into those guys
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: and you can really tell from that video and real concern.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: So you know, sending love and prayers to Marte and
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: his family and it's tough, man. We you The one
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: thing you know about being a manager that you don't
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: know as a player or that I know, is like
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of stuff that comes in your office
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: or that happens with guys on a personal level that
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: doesn't get out the media, and there's always something going on.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: It feels like in somebody's world that you're kind of
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: trying to help them through.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: It's almost everyone has that's right, that's right, And you
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: feel like a dad figure a little bit, even though
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: it's a big leagues you know, you feel like a
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: little bit of a father, father figure and trying to
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: relate to moments and stuff in that seat.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: So again, you know, thinking about them, and he's such
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: a great player.
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: Man.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: I hope, I hope he's not out long because the
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Diamondbacks are rolling and been fun here down the you know,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: getting his second half, you know, playing really good baseball
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: and right there in the mix.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: No doubt could tell we're thinking of you. We hope
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: you're doing well, whatever you're dealing with. On the personal matter.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: The game is better when you're playing it, that's for sure.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Aw To uh, stay in the West, Stay in the West.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Probably Dodgers.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, the kind of imploding a little bit ROSSI.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: It's so funny. You know what, if it wasn't for
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: their history of like having just a little bit of
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: slow playing some things and staying consistent, I would be
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: I think the thing, as you know, you worry about
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: is like with guys out and guys not performing, you know,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: especially when you talk about Diaz bowing three out of
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: his last five saves, uh in a in a short
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: span ten game span like that worries me. And they've
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: got a lot of guys injured. And I know Dave
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: and he'll he'll get some more, you know, if Glass
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: now comes back and getting some of these guys, they'll
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: move some guys around and be able to add to
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: that bullpen. But I'm a little concerned. You know, you
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: want to play good in the second half and get
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: that momentum if they're in a short series, which they
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: would be right now, it's a little scary. Anybody can
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: win a three game set in that wild card.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: Anyone who win a three game set, any anyone there there.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: I love what Dave Roberts said, He goes, I hope
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: these games don't come back to bite us in potential
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: tiebreaker where they don't get a first round five with
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: the Brewers. But again, Rossie, they're they're battle tested. It's yeah,
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: August eighteenth. They are in the dog days, right and
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: they're pros. They're grind and there there there grind is
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: their own grind. But that I don't think they can
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: they'll ever admit that. It's the light at the end
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: of the tunnel, isn't there? For they have a seven,
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: eight game lead in the West, right, so, and they
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: had a tough schedule. I'm not worried about him because look,
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: three game series, Okay, you're gonna get scooball Yamamoto. Yeah,
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: and a version of nasty, now you know what I mean.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Snell was nasty last time out with you know,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: six innings and they had thirteen punches or something crazy
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: like he Yeah, with all that time off and he
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: you know, you always worried about his command. He was
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: locked in. Yeah, his first.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Two I was looking their their schedule, the remaining They
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: have thirty six games left. Twenty four out of those
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: thirty six or under five hundred teams, So that's a
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: perfect formula for them to get some confidence rolling, get
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: some guys in place, and go into the postseason. Whether
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: it's a three game series, whether it's a five game
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: series or a seven game series. They don't care. They're
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: the best team ever. They know everyone needs to beat them.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: They are the dragon that everyone's trying to slay. So
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: I worried until they lose a series and then we
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: can talk about that.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: But they are the clear front runners. They's funny how
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: we are talking about the postseason so early now with
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: this new playoff format and all these thro in the mix.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: Dude, it's not crazy. It's so good for if you're
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: a fan right now. And I just did the for
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: NBC on Sunday Night Baseball. We just had the Mariners Astros.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: The Mariners are under five hundred. The Astros are grinding
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: at the top of the Al West, and they're both
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: in it. Realistically, They're in it. The Rangers are in it.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: If you're a fan of the game, I think it's
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: easy to be like, our team is struggling this but
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: you have a legit opportunity in August going into September
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: for meaningful baseball games. And what more can you ask
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: for as a fan?
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: I mean coming from a starved Dolphins fan, I know
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: I'm off topic with football.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: All I want somebody around the corner babies.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: Right, And this is just a side note. The over
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: under for the Dolphins wins this year is four and
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: a half and I'm like, God, how put Like this
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: is my reality of life. I'm thirty seven years old
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: and I don't think I've ever seen a good football team.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: So as a fan of baseball, just please enjoy it.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: Please.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: Really, your team's gonna be in the shooting for the playoffs. Yeah,
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: I think it's great for baseball.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been good. Staying on the negative train. We
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: talked a little of the Dodgers' bullpen and the negative
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: te stay on the negative train like ju ju.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: Negative trains get clicks.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I like staying positive, but you know, we
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: gotta throw there.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: We stay positive on the negative.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: I had Paul Skians in Milwaukee last week or a
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: week and a half ago. I guess now, uh, since
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: we did right before we did our first podcast, and man,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: he doesn't look right. And there's been so much brought
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: up about velocity. It's down over a mile an hour
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: pretty consistently. Haven't been a you know, they had some
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: numbers where pitches over ninety seven the last three years
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: and just continues to tick down. But I know how
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: what a work course he is being around him during
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: the WBC. But it doesn't look as much of arm fatigue,
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: I guess as it does like the command issues the
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: ball is that the armside misses. Me and Adam Alavino
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: were talking and when he was explaining, when you want
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: to create more velocity, you've got to really rotate and
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: ride that rotation as long as you can and let
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: that arm come through late. And it looks like he's
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: trying to generate a little bit of that, probably some
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: of the velocity in his in his back of his mind.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: But the arm side misses and the pulls to the
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: into the lefties.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: That mean he's a probably not getting his eggs.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: You think, yeah, well, it just looks like he is
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: what I think it is. I think it's mechanics. Yeah,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: it was kind of what I was getting at.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: When you're mechanically off, it's just as a hitter, I know.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: It's could be the smallest little adjustment, you know, Rossie,
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: and you're talking to pictures when they're mechanically off, they
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: could be thinking about a little bit more. His work
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: ethic is definitely not, definitely not the issue.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean. I mean, you.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: For me, as long as it's not an injury, which
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: I don't think it is. But they they just push
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: his start back, So it could be a little bit
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: of fatigue. And if you're fatigued and you're tired and
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: your body's tired, then mechanically you cannot be fully in
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: your legs or whatnot.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what I think the test is going
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: to be. I think the test is going to be
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: they're giving him a a they're skipping a start or
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: giving him one, you know, like a reset and kind
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: of restarting him. This is his next start off of
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: this reset will be a nice indication of what we
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: can expect maybe moving forward or down the stretch for him.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, his his splitter isn't up to what it is.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: I mean, his splitter is getting hit. And when you
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: throw ninety seven ninety six to one hundred and you
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: have that nasty splitter, what do you call it?
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Like the splint blink?
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And if that's not the truth threat, and it
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: hasn't been all season, then guys are game planning for
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: different It's a different game plan. Now, you don't if
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: you don't have to respect that split, that's just going
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: to drop off the zone. You could stay on the
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: heater or better, you don't have to worry about looking
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: like a fool on the change up and then you
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: see the slider, sweeper, curveball pop. It's taken this long
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: for the league to maybe get a book on him. Maybe,
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: but you're gonna see every pitcher goes through a little
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: bit of a lull, especially the great ones. He will
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: bounce back as long as he's healthy. And if he's
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: not healthy, I hope you know the Pirates have enough
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: to shut him down and make sure he's healthy for
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: next year because it doesn't look like they're going to
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: make the playoffs.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they scuffle.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: The league needs a healthy pulse.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Losing some guys to injury, they scuffle.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, if they don't get if they don't get hot.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah for sure. Well,
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: and you know, going back just to finish the thought.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: I know this is the new school. People may crush
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: me on this, but fastball command is everything for me.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: And when you're throwing out even if it is ninety
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: six ninety seven down from his normal ninety nine, I
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: was looking at some numbers. In twenty four, he had
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: a four hundred and four pitches oh ninety or above,
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: ninety nine or above excuse me. Twenty five went down
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: to two twenty three this year. In twenty six, he's
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: only throwing three balls ninety nine plus. So but even
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: if you're spot in that and guy has the command
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: that he typically has, I think that sets up everything else.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: And like the splinker and the sweeper and the slider,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: you know, he's able to command the ball a little
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: bit more and hitters got to commit to that. So
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: that's how I thought as a catcher's.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: He's a great person. He's he's got this, he's got
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: it all going from. He's a hard worker, he's very respectful,
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: he's got Livy Dunn's celebrity girlfriend. Just I hope he's healthy.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: Like everything I feel like is good vibes with Paul
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: and pitching for Team USA. So hopefully it's just a
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: little hiccup in his UH season and hopefully finishes the
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: season strong. Hopefully he's healthy, and hopefully his mechanics get
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: back in because I I love seeing him pitch. Speaking
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: of good vibes, I like it. This past weekend one
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: of my Yeah this is pint.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: We had the negative train and positive town.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah this is this is all positive for my my
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: after field of dreams. Okay, get on a show bird
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: right from my bad Yeah, me and Albert Poohle's ever
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: heard of him? He's seven to three home runs.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: He's just dropping all the names today.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: Okay, we fly down to Florida and it's hot right
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: celebrating my friend friend's fortieth birthday. Down in Florida. We
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: played golf all weekend. Getting to something here. Okay, great weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Play two rounds on set Friday, or play eighteen on Friday,
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: an emergency scramble nine on Friday. It was ten of us,
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: so it was an absolute zoo. Where I'm going with
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: this is the coronas were flying. I mean all the
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: boys were pounding Coronas. It was a vibe on the
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: golf course. We were enjoying ourselves. It was awesome. We
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: went to the elbow room later that night. I mean
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: it was It was a great weekend celebrating my friend's fortieth.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: All my boys from Louisiana were in town. Shout LSU.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: Hopefully Lane Kiffin gets them going this year. Football right
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: around the corner, but brings us to our.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: So does that? Is that a segment to the Player
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: of the Week Plaia of the week? Okay, okay, our
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: plia of.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: The week, Let's go back to the Arizona Diamondbacks. Is
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: Corbyn Carrol from the Diamondbacks NL player of the Week
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: nine for twenty two with three doubles, two triples, two
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: home runs and one bag. He leads MLBU with triples
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  Speaker 2: fifteen of them. I feel like he has one hundred
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: and fifty triples already in his career.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: He's only been in the league for four.
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: Or five years.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: It's crazy. He burst on the scene too.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: Has he been underrated in Arizona where someone maybe listened
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: to this show, isn't as familiar with Corbyn.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: Carrol man, I you know, is he underrated? I don't.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: He came in like one of the top picks in
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: the draft, had a gun's blazed on blaze. I think
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: twenty two he got like one hundred at bats and
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: and you know, over an eight hundred ops and then
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: the breakout season twenty three he was a monster and
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: had a little bit of a down year in twenty
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: four and then since then it has been rolling. I
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: think I've got my years right. But it was a
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: big loss. We had him on Team USA and then
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: he broke his handmate in spring. And anytime you have
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: some injuries or stay out for a little bit, I
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: think you can fly under the radar for a second.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: And maybe West Coast.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: Specially in Arizona. Yeah, West Coast.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: Doesn't get quite as much of the love as as
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: normal people over here on the cool Coast is in
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: the East with us is uh Are, we're a little
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: they're in bed by the time that game ends. But
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: he is a monster in the middle of that lineup.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: He can do everything. A lot of you know, we
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: talk about PCA and how good he is and the
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: five tools that he has Corporn Carrol's in that category
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: We're talking about speed, defense, power, the hit ability, just
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: a pure havoc on the bases and in the box
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: under radar. Maybe not as much attention, yes maybe, but
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: I think people in the game know how special he is.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: And that's why we got to make sure we point
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: these guys out in the playa.
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  Speaker 2: It's Corona Corona, Corona Plia the week Carol takes Yes, sir, Rossie.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: We got six weeks. We got six weeks left of baseball.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: The American League and National League wildcards are gonna come
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: down to the wire. There's a few division races. They
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: all West is gonna come down to the wire in
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: their division race. But let's talk about the American League wildcard.
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: You six, we have six teams in it, legit, six
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: teams that can make the playoffs. If you go on
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: a four and two run you are the favorite to
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: be in the final wildcard spot right now. That's how
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: crazy the league is right now. And the Orioles sell
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: at the deadline. The Rangers are kind of in between.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: They tried to trade the Grom, they tried to trade Seeger.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: They said, no, we're staying here. We can win here.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: They're in it. The Blue Jays out of nowhere have
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: have come into it, the Twins, the Guardians, It's what
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: are like, what is going on?
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: Man? It's madness is crazy. Like I thought the Orioles
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: were dead and they have just caught fire, you know,
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: getting rid of Rushman obviously he was injured, uh when
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: with them, But you know they just.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: Took three out of four from the race, yes, and
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: they had the lead yesterday to sweep.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: And I think I think the I think the Razor
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: like one of the one of my favorite teams to
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: maybe win the whole name. They're nasty.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: We got to give a shout out to my boy
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: Kobe Mayo for hitting his sixteenth home run yesterday. He
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: had a absolute nuke there tropicand of field that almost.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: Hit the back wall there there.
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: He's come on the second half, he's he's hitting well.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, either I did the Ranger game, I don't know
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: if I'm buying that, you know, like the game I
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: saw they played make five errors against San Francisco at
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: the trade deadline. And I don't know. They've got the
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: names like Jock Jock swinging it well, you know they've
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: got they've got the names, but it just hasn't been
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: I don't know, it just didn't feel it felt state.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: It just fell stale. Maybe it's just the game I
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: got and hadn't watched them a whole lot, But I'd
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: love like the Tigers to me, like they sold get
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: rid of schoobl and those guys win. Sampson, thank you.
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: Casey May has been pitching great for San Diego. Like,
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: but I know a J. Hinch can handle a bullpen
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: and those young guys have had a taste of.
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: And they could hit man and they can hit.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's when they've got a good stat.
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: Runner for Rookie of the Year. Yeah, yeah, yeah, they
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: have a good staff.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: The Guardians got a great stat. I I kind of
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: lean on the teams that have the great pitching staff
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: to like just be consistent down the stretch. And again
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: we're like mid August and we're walking this thing down
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: like like the playoffs.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: It's crazy. It's a six weeks It's a six week sprint. Yeah,
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: and I know there is a little bit of you
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: do have some room for air as all these contenders,
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: but you don't have much. But then again you don't
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: have much and then the next thing, you know, a
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: team go was on an eight and two run or
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: a ten and two run, and they're right back in it.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: So it's I mean, the Guardians have a very weak schedule.
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: The Tigers have a insane run differential. Toronto's the hottest
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: team in all of.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: The well that playoff experience they had bottom tier make
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: those guys exactly right. And Vlad the scary part. Vlad
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: had hit all year, goes out with the concussion, getting
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: neat in the in the head. Hopefully he comes back
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: right and and maybe gets a little reset and hopefully
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: obviously Baltimore both dealt with concussions. That stuff sucks, it's
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: not but hopefully he.
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: Comes Baltimore has a tough schedule remaining. The Twins could
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: hit and pitch, So it's really what team's gonna get
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: hot and go take it. And then you have the
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: Red Sox and the Yankees up up at the top
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: there where they got to keep going. The Yankees are scuffling.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: The Red Sox have kind of leveled off or came
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: back down to life.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they were. They were on another plane right
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: there for about a fell's life felt like a month plus.
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So that's going to be such a fun race
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: down the stretch, and I think it's going to be
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: one of these. Hopefully we get one of these twenty
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: eleven finishes where the last day of the season, remember
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: when Evan Mongoria hits the home run to go to
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: the make the playoffs and.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: All that, that would be amazing.
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: Like, I feel like that's where we have a showdown
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: coming that these last week. I mean, there's so many
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: things up for grabs right now and it's six weeks left.
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: Any anything can happen.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: That brings back a little PTSD. I do have to admit,
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: like you, I was in Atlanta and we Boston collouse,
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: but so did us in Atlanta, dere Derek Derek Low.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: I think we had like a crazy like an eight
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: game lead or something and going into September, and Derek
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: Low says, I'll never forget. He's like, the only way
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: we're not making the playoffs is if our plane crashes. Well,
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: we didn't have a playing crowd. We we stunk down
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: the stretch and yeah, exactly exactly. But if okay, well
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  Speaker 2: You know, I just I'm going off cuff here. I'm
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: going with the Seattle Mariners. And I know they're not
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: on our list, right right, you didn't list them, but
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: their pitching staff is really good. Yea, how Roley just
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: they just won their first road series versus the Astros,
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: or first road series since late June. Right, they haven't
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: they went into an off day essay, they have the
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: Brewers today. I think the Brewers may be a little
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: let down after they're high adrenaline playing in LA, playing
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: the Dodgers. I feel like every time you play a
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: superpower team, you're always kind of have a little letdown
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: series next. So if if the Mariners get hot, they
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: have the pitching, If cal you can put the pass
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: in the past and just go out and just produce
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: to his his average self. Right, he doesn't need to
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: be the sixty homer cal Rally, but if you look
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: at his career, the cal Rally before that was a
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: pretty damn good Yeah too, Right, he's hitting thirty homers
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: every year, they're fifty nine and sixty six, but there
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: are three games back of that final wildcard spot. I
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: think that's that's my dark horse bold prediction because there's
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: a lot of teams that are chasing. Yeah, but I
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: do feel they can get hot on paper.
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: It feels like it feels like the pitching is real,
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: but it's that offense. I saw it when in New York.
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: It just feels like they've got nothing going on offensively
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: for me. I who do they get it too? Well?
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: I want to you wanna hear mine? You're my choice?
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: Can I can? I I want to participate. See how
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: wrong I am. Let everybody blow us up on social media.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: Let's uh. I love pitching. And again it's a hard
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: one and they're in the same division, Tigers and Guardians. Uh.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: But the Guardians pitching to me is real and you
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: already said it. Their schedule is light down the stretch.
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: And I don't know Stephen vote it just he's got
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: that little bit of break to the end. Yeah, it
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: seems like an awesome dude. So it seems like a great manager.
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: And just I feel like I like the way he's wired,
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: knowing him a little bit, but then from Afar just
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: watching him, Uh, he's wired the right way. And and
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: get those guys pushing and they're they're used to pushing
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: to the end and that underdog kind of uh feeling
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: that I'd push yeah.
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well and and too Roussie. Now that I'm done playing,
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: I definitely have a soft spot for Cleveland, you know
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: what I mean. I'll always root for them to win
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: now because, uh, the joy that they brought us. My
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: favorite road city, my favorite road city always while I
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: was playing Post twenty sixteen was Cleveland. Loved going back
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: to Cleveland. Everyone didn't believe me, but so yeah, Guardians
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: are good memories there, good memories to get into.
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: The nl NL's got three spots, uh in the wildcar
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: for four teams for three spots. The Cubbies kind of
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: look like they have it locked up as of now,
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: but it can change.
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: The Phillies were.
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: Rolling and then all of a sudden they hit a little.
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: The Padres are another team at the deadline where Aj
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: Prowler goes out and said, hold on, we're not trading,
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: Mason Miller, We're not trading. We're gonna add okay, we're
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: gonna go out and get Robbie Ray. We're gonna go
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: out and get Casey Maies and we're gonna compete. And
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: if we have to play a three game series versus
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: the Dodgers or anyone we're ready to play, right, and
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: then you have the Diamondbacks, So those for me, I
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: think it's Cubs, Phillies, Padres in that wild wildcard spot
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: in some some order. But I mean bro races, right.
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: I'm with you.
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: Well, then take the Cups. Can the Cubs could catch
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: the Brewers? Really seven games against them in September. I mean,
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: the Brewers are are very good team.
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: They they are.
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: They're yeah, yeah, maybe they're not getting as much love
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: and coverage as they they should, but everyone knows in
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: the baseball world how good the Brewers are.
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: No doubt, no doubt. I'm with you. I the Padres
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: to me with I love just how a J. Prewler
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: is always going for it and uh, you know, push
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: the chips in. I just sold the team for a
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: lot of money and uh that what a what a
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: cool number. That was crazy.
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: It's crazy to think, with the owners saying how bad
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: the state of the game is and how much we
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: need to rewrite our CBA, that people are just paying
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: billions of dollars for these franchises, right, Rolseie, I would
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: be crazy. I think a billionaire would make such a
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: such a well have terrible decision.
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: Well, we'll have our CBA discussions, I'm sure on here
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: a little bit coming up. We've got a we've got
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: a long, a long way to go. I almost stay
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: out of negative town and go to the Padres. That offense,
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: I'm with you on that that the offense.
• 48:20
  Speaker 5: Is hitting and hit all year up until the All
• 48:23
  Speaker 5: Star break, and like that list of guys they have,
• 48:27
  Speaker 5: there's no way they were going to go the entire
• 48:29
  Speaker 5: season without getting the back of the base numbers closer
• 48:32
  Speaker 5: to the back of the baseball card.
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: They're scared, and I think I think it's good for
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: them that all this, all these expectations have kind of
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: faded and now they're back to the underdog San Diego
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: Padres and not a World Series favorite Padres, And I
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: think that can play into their favor Where they they
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: get in, they can be really scared. They have really
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: good pitching, they have their bullpens insane, and they have
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: superstar players on the offensive side. So that's a that's
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: a dark horse team for sure. Now the whole n L,
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: the whole that's that's why if the Dodgers can pull
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: this off again and they do a three, they go
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: three pet The last three years of the National League
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: in the playoffs has been must watch television. It's in
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: must watch playoff baseball. Any team that gets in the
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: NL can win the World Series legitimately, like legitimate World
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: Series contenders. So I gotta give this six weeks.
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: Give the Cards a shout out. They they played, they're
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: playing well, and they got a lot of good young
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: town one of the youngest teams in baseball. And the
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: way they played in Chicago and Chicago was rolling. It
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: was impressive. So they're only I think three back. Same
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: thing like you're like, you're talking about Seattle's gonna be
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: tough with all those good teams in front of them,
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: to and and in a tough division, but they're definitely there.
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: All right, Riz, We asked the people to send in
• 49:55
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• 49:59
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• 50:09
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• 50:33
  Speaker 1: Huh. Look, yes, yes, dude, you're the all year old
• 50:40
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• 50:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean twenty twenty was such a I mean, Rossie,
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: you know it. When we started twenty twenty COVID two
• 50:49
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  Speaker 1: shout out blue chee.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. I just thought during that time in COVID when
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: baseball was on we were pretty much the only sport
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  Speaker 2: on making light of You got to have humor in life, right,
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  Speaker 2: And we had all these restrictions. We couldn't be six feet,
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: had to wear a mask. We were getting tested every day.
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: We were kind of in our own bubble. So right
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  Speaker 2: before the game, I was like, Hey, I'm going to
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: put some sanitizer in my back pocket, and first got
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  Speaker 2: it gets on to make sure he sanitizes, so, you know,
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  Speaker 2: show the world we're being safe.
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  Speaker 1: That was amazing. I had forgotten about that to The
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: question came in a manage that you know as hilarious Brothers.
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  Speaker 2: A good question. Yeah, it was a really good question.
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  Speaker 2: We got an email from jan Do you think the
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: Brewers will ever reach the same degree of rivalry with
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: the Cubs that the Cardinals have or is this current
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: rivalry with the Brewer is just a flash.
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  Speaker 1: In the pan. Oh. I don't think it's a flash
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  Speaker 1: in the pan from like the Brewers being good. I
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: just think there's so much history Cubs, Cards, Uh, that
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  Speaker 1: just is it's gonna have to go on for a
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  Speaker 1: really long time. And I think, you know, looking back
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: and being a part of a lot of that, Like
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: you know, I think about the best rivalries. I think
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: a lot of people come with like Red Sox Yankees.
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: Well that kind of goes back and forth, and when
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: teams are good, but the still Red Sox Yankees is
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: big and I came up a Dodger, and Dodger San
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: Francisco is the biggest one to me because that's what
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: I came up in when San Francisco was really good
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  Speaker 1: and so where was La. So you know, like the
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  Speaker 1: rivalries is so fan oriented. It's just about the history
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  Speaker 1: to me, and they're just the Brewers don't have.
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  Speaker 2: The fan or yeah, no they don't. And I think
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  Speaker 2: whenever you're in division, you you come to hate all
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: of these teams in your division. Right, I hated the Pirates,
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  Speaker 2: I hate the Reds. Yeah, I hate the Brewers. And
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: when the teams aren't good, you don't really care about
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: them for much, especially when you're the big boys in
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: the division where the Cubs and the the Yankees. But
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: then these teams become good and they get this little
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: edge and it really irks you.
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: So when they always want to be the most right
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: that like the Pirates want to back the big market
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: teams or you know all this.
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  Speaker 2: Well, when you when you have when you play for
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: the big market team, and these teams come in the
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: Skylar report on these pictures, are you know ninety three
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  Speaker 2: to ninety seven. Well, when they're coming into Wrigley Field
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: or Yankee Stadium, you're seeing ninety seven. You're seeing the
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: top end of every picture stuff because they're Adrenaline's role
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: and they're playing a Wriggly, They're playing at New York.
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  Speaker 2: They don't get this experience at the smaller market level.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't think the rivalry we beat at ever
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  Speaker 2: as big as Cubs Cardinals because the fans and the history.
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  Speaker 2: Like you said, Rossie, but that that rivalry right now,
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  Speaker 2: the Brewers of the team to beat in that division,
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  Speaker 2: and the Cubs know it. And when the Cubs go
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: up there to Wrigley North, it's loud. It's a lot
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: of cheers to the Cubs, and Bruce fans are trying
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  Speaker 2: to counter that. They all all the Bruise fans of
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: their elf flags if they beat them leaving the stadium.
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's becoming it's becoming a real rivalry. Sure
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: get to our last question email from Luke Smitley. This
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: one's for you, Patna Rossi Rossie, I'd love to hear
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: about the evolution of pitch calling from when you first
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: came into the league versus now. Obviously Velo has changed
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: things tremendously over the years. How hard is it to
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: evolve while playing and constantly having to change what you
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: grew up learning and knowing about calling the game as
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  Speaker 2: a catcher.
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: Oh, you already heard me talking about it a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Great question. I think about this all the time, and
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: something that I couldn't wrap my brain around is just
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  Speaker 1: how little location there is in the game. Now. It's
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: like a lot of catchers setting up middle, riding north
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  Speaker 1: and south and really don't get on the edges as much.
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: You know, I was on the edges for especially at
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: the end of my career with John Lester, who you know,
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: could really locate. We had guys like Kyle Hendricks obviously,
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: Jake Arietta, John Lackey. I mean these guys, these guys
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  Speaker 1: were on the edges and you're working the corners up
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  Speaker 1: down a little bit, but really in and out a
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  Speaker 1: lot more, and especially earlier in my career. So I
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: think the toughest part, which I understand, is just straight
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: velocity and setting up middle and spin rates and trying
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: to just throw nasty stuff in the zone and let
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: it do what it does. But we talked to a
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: good friend of the program, Kyle Schwarber. I talked to
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  Speaker 1: him in the WBC, and he made us statement that
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  Speaker 1: made a little bit of sense. Is he's able to
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: set his sites a lot more middle and hitting has
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: become a little less of a guessing game and just
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: kind of like reacting to a space in the mill
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: zone that he's looking for. Uh. And it made a
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: lot of sense because you know, guys aren't backdoor and
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: nasty breaking balls or cutters or you know, some guys can,
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: but like consistently around the league, a lot of guys
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: are going middle stuff and these guys get to see
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: stuff all the time. Yeah, So my two cents is,
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: you know, location has just kind of taken a back seat.
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: The Dale Sway, former manager when I was young, said
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: this comment that's stuck with me forever. You're gonna get
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: over a thousand pitches right down the middle of the
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: plate in baseball, we call it cock shots right down
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: the middle of the plate a year, and it's what
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: are you going to do? You don't know what it's
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: gonna be it's gonna be a fastball, curveball, sider, change up, sweeper, sprinkler,
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: whatever they're making up now, but it's gonna be right
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: down the plate over a thousand times every single year,
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  Speaker 2: which always has stood out to me the evolution. But
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: told me, he said, Uh.
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: I asked him one day, I say, where do you
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: look for the ball? I thought, like a catch? I
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: always looked for, like I knew they were going away
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: from me, like fastball sliders away. And he I was like,
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: what do you look? What do you look for? And
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: he's like, I look for the ball right down the middle.
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: I'm like, what right down the middle? Yeah, It's like,
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: no wonder, I'm a career two twenty, Like I'm looking
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: at the wrong place.
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: Well, it seems it seems right now that it's really
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: easy to be lazy with your scouting reports because we
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: have all the information. Because all the information, everyone has
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: all the information, So it's really easy to cram for
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: the test to where if you really study and you
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: it seems easy to just cram for the test instead
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: of really diving into video of these guys and watching
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: their their their tendencies and seeing it on film is
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: so much different than just seeing the scout and report.
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: And that's sometimes what I see in the league where
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: it's like, man, why why is that pitch being thrown?
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: Even when I was playing in my last few years,
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: why would they throw this pitch? And then it's because
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: they just get the information it's all on your wristband
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: and they're kind of just going off of that, where
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: my question is our guys really grinding on the hours
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: of video that I used to see you grinding on?
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I don't know. And then I think
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: a lost art because of all the information is reading swings.
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: You know, we're so polygrammed to you.
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: Know it's going to come back.
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: It has to, it has to well. And we talked
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: to guys. I was listening to an interview the other day.
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: I forgot who it was, but they were talking about
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: they're not really good at reading swings and as a pitch.
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: I think it may have been schemes and like some
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: of these guys that fought foul balls off, they're late
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: and they found them off the other dugout and you
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: think it's a good approach, but you know they it
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: was a big hit. It was a big hit. In
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: a Phillies game and was just fouling off the fastball
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: and didn't have good numbers, and the guys talking about him,
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: maybe it was Frank Corr, Jeff Frank Corr, but they
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: sped him up through him a breaking ball on his own,
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: he had a bases loaded double, and you know it,
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: just if you were reading that swing, you knew either
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: you had to throw the off speed for chase or
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: stay with the fastball in different locations. So reading swings
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: is one of those things that I was pretty good
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  Speaker 1: at and was able to maybe get off the scouting
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: report a little bit at times when it just felt
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: like you could tell what the hitter was thinking.
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• 59:53
  Speaker 2: I'm excited to see the next few games here at
• 59:55
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• 59:59
  Speaker 2: White Sox. We got a lot coming this weekend. Raffie
• 1:00:02
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• 1:00:05
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• 1:00:10
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• 1:00:27
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• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: ESPN Little League Classic coming up. We've got Braves Brewers,
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• 1:00:39
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• 1:00:43
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• 1:00:45
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• 1:00:48
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• 1:00:51
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• 1:00:56
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