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AJ’s EPIC rant on White Sox playoff push, Pete Alonso’s return, Braves lose Lopez, No Jazz extension? · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Oh, hey, it's Bron Kratz and the Pope at the
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  Speaker 1: top of the show.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, listen, listen, let me explain something to y'all. Scott,
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  Speaker 2: welcome back.
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  Speaker 3: You and Producer Lady from your vacation and overseas together.
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  Speaker 3: It was nice of you guys to make an appearance today.
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  Speaker 3: If my Ben MGM locks don't happen, then it's Producer
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  Speaker 3: Lady's fault because.
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  Speaker 4: I've got my 12 hour vacations that I take.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, 12 hours.
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  Speaker 4: Nice.
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  Speaker 2: You flew across the seas and then flew back to
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  Speaker 2: the seas. So it was nice.
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  Speaker 1: Producer lady said, do you want to have lunch? And
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  Speaker 1: I was like, sure, I'll pop over. And then I'm back.
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  Speaker 2: Perfect.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, did you all really think the White
• 0:42
  Speaker 3: Sox were going to lose on the Pope's birthday? Y'all
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  Speaker 3: better recognize.
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  Speaker 4: Was it the Pope's birthday yesterday?
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  Speaker 2: Yesterday it was. Yes, it was.
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  Speaker 5: AJ was so nervous during the show. He had to
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  Speaker 5: explain to us why it would have been a failure
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  Speaker 5: if the White Sox missed the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: And then he had it.
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  Speaker 5: He had to mansplain them to beat the Guardians who
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  Speaker 5: score so many runs.
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  Speaker 2: Well, this will be a fun show for you. Scott,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if you.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't miss anything.
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  Speaker 1: Nope, I catch every second of every show.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, oh, I did.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been taking some shit online from numerous people.
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  Speaker 2: Some people have my back. Some people don't understand what
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying. But let me say this.
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  Speaker 3: The players are busting their asses. The coaches are busting
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  Speaker 3: their asses. And everyone is busting their ass as a
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  Speaker 3: White Sox to get to the postseason, okay? It's not
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  Speaker 3: a knock on anybody personal in the organization. What it is,
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  Speaker 3: is as a player, and I have told people, they
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  Speaker 3: know who they are, if you don't win the World
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  Speaker 3: Series as a player, that is, I'm sorry, it's cool
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  Speaker 3: that you were expected to lose 100 games, right? But
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  Speaker 3: then the expectations change, Scott, over time. If you get
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  Speaker 3: to first place, and you're nine games over first place
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  Speaker 3: late into August, and you have a 3-4 game lead,
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  Speaker 3: you know what you then try to do? You try
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  Speaker 3: to get to the postseason. It's not just like... Man,
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  Speaker 3: it was cool, guys. We almost got there. Maybe next year.
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  Speaker 2: No, it sucks.
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  Speaker 3: Because your goal, and if you ask these players, their
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  Speaker 3: goal is to win the division. And you ask the
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  Speaker 3: coaches and get to the playoffs and make a deep run.
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  Speaker 3: Because honestly, I think if they get there and they're
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  Speaker 3: the two seed, you know what they could have? They
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  Speaker 3: could get at least to the LCS and have an
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  Speaker 3: outside shot at going to the World Series. Every year,
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  Speaker 3: if you're a player, I'll take that. Because the ultimate
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  Speaker 3: goal as a player and as a person that plays
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  Speaker 3: this for a living is to get to the World
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  Speaker 3: Series and to win the World Series. Every year I
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  Speaker 3: took the field Kratz, am I wrong? My goal was
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  Speaker 3: to get to the World Series and try to win
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  Speaker 3: the World Series.
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  Speaker 2: Couldn't agree more.
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  Speaker 4: Well, sometimes it's about the marathon, not the race. There
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  Speaker 4: are some people who benefit from five-year plans. I want
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  Speaker 4: to save some of this juice, though. Wait, AJ.
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  Speaker 2: That's my question.
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  Speaker 4: Can we do it during charge? Can we do it
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  Speaker 4: during charge?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we can run the graphic and then we can
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  Speaker 2: talk about it. But I have a question for everybody.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 3: So here's my question for you, too, and for people
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  Speaker 3: out there watching, too. When did fans and people become
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  Speaker 3: so conditioned by GM speak, front office speak, radio talk speak,
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  Speaker 3: podcast speak, MLB speak, daily announcer speak that, hey, guys,
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  Speaker 3: we improved. So that's just a better year. Like we're
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  Speaker 3: we don't really want to win. We just want to
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  Speaker 3: get incrementally better. It's OK if we never win the
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  Speaker 3: World Series. We'll just keep incrementally getting a little bit better.
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  Speaker 3: Because I remember back in the day when I was
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  Speaker 3: a fan, I grew up a Braves fan, okay? Braves
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  Speaker 3: didn't win all those World Series. They won in 95, right?
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  Speaker 3: But for all those years, they went to the playoffs,
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  Speaker 3: went to the playoffs, went to the playoffs, never won.
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  Speaker 3: You're like, crap, another wasted year with all these great players, right?
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  Speaker 3: But back then, Bobby Cox and Jaron Sherholtz were like, man,
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  Speaker 3: we had a great year. We didn't win the World Series.
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  Speaker 3: They're like, we had one really great year, and that
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  Speaker 3: was 95 when we won. When has fans and people
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  Speaker 3: become so I don't even know what the right word is.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to say brainwashing. That's not right. Indoctrinated to, hey,
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  Speaker 3: we're going to listen to the organization. If they say
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  Speaker 3: we had a better year, then gosh darn it, we
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  Speaker 3: had a better year. Now we have six prospects instead
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  Speaker 3: of four prospects.
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  Speaker 5: Fan is short for fanatic. You're supposed to think crazy.
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  Speaker 5: Our team couldn't win it. I'm a Rockies fan. Our
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  Speaker 5: team can win it. I'm an A's fan. That's the
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  Speaker 5: fanatic part of it. You spend a lot of time.
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  Speaker 5: Your question was, when did we start to believe that?
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  Speaker 5: When did that indoctrination start? Brainwashing start? Whenever the first
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  Speaker 5: rebuild was. Whenever their first documented team, and I live
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  Speaker 5: here in Philly, so the process with the Sixers, I
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  Speaker 5: remember thinking about it like, I'm no longer a Sixers fan.
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  Speaker 5: That sounds terrible. Like, trust the process. I know there
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  Speaker 5: was rebuilds before that, but ever since organizations started to rebuild,
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  Speaker 5: everybody's good with getting a trophy. And I'm just talking
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  Speaker 5: in general. I'm not talking necessarily about the White Sox.
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  Speaker 5: I'm talking in general. And so I think that's when
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  Speaker 5: it started.
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  Speaker 1: Sustainability, that's a big word to me. I think it
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  Speaker 1: started around Moneyball, right? You started telling people that there's
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  Speaker 1: more to the story than, wins and losses in the
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  Speaker 1: way that you're evaluating talent.
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  Speaker 4: And it's fine to update with the times. We go
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  Speaker 4: over plenty of.
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  Speaker 1: Advanced statistics and stat casts and all of that. You
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  Speaker 1: guys played and you were catchers. You guys were smart
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  Speaker 1: dudes in the sport for a long period of time.
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  Speaker 4: I'm with you though. The amount of times that fan comments.
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  Speaker 1: Appear to be worried about the five-year plan versus where
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  Speaker 1: are we at right now does get concerning, right?
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  Speaker 4: For every time that.
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  Speaker 1: We look at PCA being traded to the Cubs from
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  Speaker 1: the Mets and say, I can't believe the Mets did that.
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  Speaker 4: There are 1,000 trades where it does not matter at all.
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  Speaker 4: So let's keep that in mind.
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  Speaker 1: And this point's going to be spun into the White
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  Speaker 1: Sox because I do want to get to the American
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  Speaker 1: League Central and how the White Sox were in control
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  Speaker 1: for a good chunk of the season, especially in the
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  Speaker 1: second half, right? They've been in control here. Now they
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  Speaker 1: do have a two and a half game lead. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying two and a half because they won the
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  Speaker 1: season series. So that becomes a big deal for them.
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  Speaker 1: If the Guardians end up tying them, they still lose
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  Speaker 1: that spot for the division crown. But playing to your point, AJ,
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  Speaker 1: I'm imagining you ask this question because the White Sox,
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  Speaker 1: as a fan base, might be looking at this season going, wow,
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  Speaker 1: we did it.
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  Speaker 4: This is great.
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  Speaker 1: And more fans should be looking at this saying, wait,
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  Speaker 1: hold up. We need to make the playoffs. Otherwise, if
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  Speaker 1: we turn into a collapse and fall out of it,
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  Speaker 1: it's not a success. I will say if the White
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  Speaker 1: Sox somehow don't win the division, I think they will.
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  Speaker 1: But if they don't win the division and they make
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs, I would still say it's a success. Getting
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  Speaker 1: into October in any form, success. Missing October at this point,
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  Speaker 1: if you're the White Sox and you did everything you
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  Speaker 1: did and you did do the scrap it down, tear
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  Speaker 1: down for a long time and your trade deadline was
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  Speaker 1: not great, including a Luis Castillo trade, that's really not
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  Speaker 1: looking good. then I would say it was a failure.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm with you here.
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  Speaker 4: It's playoffs or bust at this point.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and by the way, Justin, on YouTube, shush. Because
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  Speaker 2: you didn't listen to what I said yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: I said that they were going to make the playoffs,
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  Speaker 3: and I believed it. And then I also said that
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  Speaker 3: when he's like, you said they don't develop players. No,
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  Speaker 3: I said that most of their guys in their lineup,
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  Speaker 3: other than Colson Montgomery, were traded for.
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  Speaker 2: They all were traded for. Go through the lineup. Were they?
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  Speaker 3: Murakami traded for Murakami, Japan. Teal traded for. My draw
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  Speaker 3: traded for.
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  Speaker 2: Where else do we go? Tristan Peters traded for. Ben Attendee,
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  Speaker 2: free agent. Who else?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, go through their lineup. Braden Montgomery traded for. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: they've developed some pitchers. Yes, I'll give them credit for that.
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  Speaker 3: They have developed the crap out of some pitchers. But
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  Speaker 3: as far as hitters go, they're all from other organizations
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  Speaker 3: that they made trade for. Has Chris Getz made some
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  Speaker 3: great trades?
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  Speaker 2: 100%. Will I give Chris Getz credit for making trades? 100%.
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  Speaker 2: Has Chris Getz done a good job?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Has he done a great job? No.
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  Speaker 3: Check back if he wins a World Series. Then you've
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  Speaker 3: done a great job. Has Chris Getz In the front office,
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  Speaker 3: Barfield and the rest of them deserve credit? A million percent. Okay, well,
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  Speaker 3: I eat crow and people say, oh, you don't like
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  Speaker 3: Chris Goetz.
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  Speaker 2: Not true.
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  Speaker 3: I like Chris Goetz, and I think he's done a
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  Speaker 3: good job with what he's been handed and how he's
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  Speaker 3: done it. Do I like Jerry Reinsdorf?
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  Speaker 2: 100%. Do I love the White Sox? Yes. Do I
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  Speaker 2: root for the White Sox? Yes. Do I think they'll
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  Speaker 2: make the postseason and win the division? 100% yes.
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  Speaker 3: So all you people that are saying that I don't
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  Speaker 3: like the White Sox and I'm anti-White Sox, you know
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  Speaker 3: where you can go, okay? There's an old WWE saying
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  Speaker 3: that has two words, and you know what I mean. So, okay,
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  Speaker 3: so let's stop that. What I'm saying is because of
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  Speaker 3: where they were less than two weeks ago, if they
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  Speaker 3: don't make the postseason, it is a failure.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Yes, it's nice that they took the next step.
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  Speaker 3: They didn't lose 100 games, but it's not what you
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  Speaker 3: play for and it's not what you're there for as
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  Speaker 3: a player.
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  Speaker 2: I'm speaking as a player.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry, I wanted, in whatever year I was in, 2001,
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  Speaker 3: we had a lead on the Indians at the time,
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  Speaker 3: the Guardians.
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  Speaker 2: We didn't finish it off as twins. It was a failure.
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  Speaker 3: 2012, we had a lead as a team. We didn't
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  Speaker 3: finish it off. It was a failure. Okay, 2006, we
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  Speaker 3: won 90 games. Didn't make the postseason.
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  Speaker 2: Failure.
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  Speaker 3: 2004, I was with the Giants. We won 90-plus games.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't make the postseason.
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  Speaker 2: Failure. Sorry.
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  Speaker 3: That's the way I look at it. If you have
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  Speaker 3: another opinion, I'm sorry. But are the White Sox going
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  Speaker 3: to make it?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: Nice. And this is a situation.
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  Speaker 3: And by the way, Tristan Peters, you had one of
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  Speaker 3: the best at-bats I've ever seen in my life yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: That was an unbelievable at-bat. And Gavin Williams threw everything
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  Speaker 3: he had at you.
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  Speaker 2: And you know what? Tristan Peters, fellow Savannah Banana, you
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  Speaker 2: might have saved their season on that one at-bat. So
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  Speaker 2: F you.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that at bat, leading to six runs, leading
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  Speaker 1: to a 7-3 win for the White Sox, and leading
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  Speaker 1: to the season series being clinched, which is huge. You
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: get basically two games out of one in that win
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  Speaker 1: in the series. One thing, then we'll jump back into
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  Speaker 1: this series. All you need to do is look at
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  Speaker 1: the Orioles. They tanked, scrapped it down, rebuilt. This is
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  Speaker 1: almost a decade ago at this point that they did
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  Speaker 1: all of.
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  Speaker 4: This, okay? It was five years of absolute sludge, crap,
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  Speaker 4: no one showing up to games, all of that, right?
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  Speaker 1: Was it worth it? And the answer is no. Right now,
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  Speaker 1: the answer is no. Five years of complete abyss where
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  Speaker 1: you look like a minor league team, and now what
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  Speaker 1: did you get out of it? You had one really
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  Speaker 1: magical season that still ended with no playoff wins, right?
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  Speaker 1: What was that, 2023? And now they're scrapping and clawing
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  Speaker 1: and can't even get back into the postseason. So they
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  Speaker 1: did a better job this past offseason than the prior offseason,
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  Speaker 1: but the point is the overall five now becoming 10-year
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  Speaker 1: plan is not as rosy as it appears. And your
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  Speaker 1: winning window often shows up earlier and ends earlier than
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  Speaker 1: you anticipate. So with all of that being said, that
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  Speaker 1: is where the stakes rise. And that's what's going on
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  Speaker 1: right now.
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  Speaker 2: It's a good thing. By the way, it's a good
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  Speaker 2: thing if your window opens earlier than you thought. Because
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  Speaker 2: you know what? That means your players might be better
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  Speaker 2: than you thought at the time. So that is a
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  Speaker 2: good thing. Pressure is a privilege. You can't explain.
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  Speaker 3: Pressure and wanting to win and the desire to win
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  Speaker 3: is a good thing, Krauts. When you're on a crappy team,
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  Speaker 3: it sucks going into the year.
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  Speaker 2: We suck.
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  Speaker 3: But when you go into a season, man, we have
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  Speaker 3: a chance. Listen, when I was in 2001, okay? Twins,
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  Speaker 3: they were the laughingstock of baseball. We got like 500
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  Speaker 3: fans a game. 2001, we didn't make the playoffs, but
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  Speaker 3: we had a really good year.
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  Speaker 2: We were in it.
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  Speaker 3: Whatever happened, we lost. We didn't finish it off, right?
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  Speaker 3: The next year, 2002, guess what? We came into the
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  Speaker 3: season saying, we have to win the division or it's
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  Speaker 3: a waste. We won the division, lost in the LCS
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  Speaker 3: to Angels, went on to win the World Series, tip
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  Speaker 3: my hat to the Angels, okay? Adam Kennedy, three home
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  Speaker 3: runs in a game, never thought I'd see it.
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  Speaker 2: What a game for him, okay?
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  Speaker 7: But.
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  Speaker 3: Going into 2001, nobody believed in us. In our room,
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  Speaker 3: we believed that we could get to the postseason.
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  Speaker 2: Did it happen?
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  Speaker 7: No.
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  Speaker 2: But that's okay.
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  Speaker 3: This year, 2026, White Sox went into the season saying, hey, guys,
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  Speaker 3: we actually have a chance.
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  Speaker 2: And you heard it all spring training. You heard it
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  Speaker 2: early in the year. What did they do?
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  Speaker 3: They jumped out to lead. They've had to lead pretty
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  Speaker 3: much the entire season on the entire division. If you
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  Speaker 3: don't finish it off, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 2: It sucks.
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  Speaker 4: I'm with you.
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  Speaker 1: And, yes, the starting pitching in the second half has
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  Speaker 1: been a problem. I know they've done a nice job
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  Speaker 1: developing teams.
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  Speaker 2: Some pitching.
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  Speaker 3: Listen, Sean Burr pitched great last night. Davis Martin has
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  Speaker 3: had his ups and downs, right? But they brought in
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  Speaker 3: Anthony Kaye. He's been a solid guy for them, right?
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  Speaker 3: Sean Newcomb's been a godsend, as Josh from Sox Machine
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  Speaker 3: said yesterday, right? The back end of their bullpen, they've
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  Speaker 3: developed some bullpen arms, lefties and righties, Taylor, right? Some
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  Speaker 3: of these guys have done a really nice job. So
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  Speaker 3: let's not lose the fact that they have done a
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  Speaker 3: nice job when it comes to developing some pitchers and
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  Speaker 3: finding some guys that can do some stuff. Now, did
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  Speaker 3: they do a good job of the trade deadline? They
• 13:48
  Speaker 3: didn't trade away any of their big prospects. Now, is
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  Speaker 3: Luis Castillo.
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  Speaker 2: Going to help?
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  Speaker 3: Maybe, but not, I mean, I don't know, 20, they're
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  Speaker 3: eating all of his salary this year and next year.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry.
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  Speaker 3: Anyways, and then, you know, some of the other guys,
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  Speaker 3: Joey Barca in the hand, not his fault, right? But
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  Speaker 3: Brenton Doyle hasn't done anything for him. So, yes, did
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  Speaker 3: they give up the farm? No, but that's fine. They're
• 14:07
  Speaker 3: still going to probably win this division and go to
• 14:09
  Speaker 3: the postseason. That's a success.
• 14:11
  Speaker 4: Yep, it is.
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: Let's show the full screen, the graphic of the 18 pitches, too,
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: to give props to Tristan Peters here.
• 14:18
  Speaker 4: And I'm with you as we're talking about this.
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: Cleveland has had times where they've looked– like the best
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: team in the division and they don't really push the
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: chips in last year. I think it was a quantity
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: over quality trade deadline for the tigers thinking, Oh, we'll
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: just look to next year.
• 14:30
  Speaker 4: It's always looking to next year.
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: So that's all you got to appreciate the passion for
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: somebody that wants to see a team really push it
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: in when they have a chance during the trade deadline,
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: the white Sox are still in a good position. So
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: white Sox fans should be thrilled Cleveland fans. You still
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: have a team that's in wild card position, despite the
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: loss here, the blue Jays lost. We can talk about
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: that later, but that's a.
• 14:49
  Speaker 4: Lot of pitches. 18 to be exact, the tweet from
• 14:51
  Speaker 4: Mike Petriello. Look at this, AJ. This is impressive. Imagine
• 14:54
  Speaker 4: if you're catching this. You're like, damn, I don't know
• 14:56
  Speaker 4: what to do. Eventually, it's not giving up, but, you know,
• 14:59
  Speaker 4: curveball didn't land in the zone, and you're like, all right, uncle.
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a great at bat, man. Tristan Peters, dude,
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: I tip my cat. That was a hell of a bat.
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: Even I was watching the Guardians broadcast, and they were like,
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: this is one of the best at bats I've ever seen.
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: I mean, he was throwing cutters. He was throwing curveballs,
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: high fastballs at 98. And you know Gavin Williams' big
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: rig was just emptying the tank on this. Tristan Peters, man. kudos, cookies,
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: whatever you flowers, whatever you give people.
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: Congratulations, man. That was one hell of one of the
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: best at bats I've ever seen in a huge situation.
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: Yep. So it continues to be following it. Yeah.
• 15:33
  Speaker 5: I think about, obviously we don't see at bats like this,
• 15:36
  Speaker 5: but around that same time, if you're following other games
• 15:39
  Speaker 5: around that same time, Kazuma Akamoto for the blue Jays
• 15:44
  Speaker 5: was coming up and hits a three run Homer. I'm
• 15:47
  Speaker 5: not saying that a fifth inning at bat, can change
• 15:50
  Speaker 5: a season. But the fact that Tristan Peters was down,
• 15:55
  Speaker 5: he got ball one, and then he was down one-two
• 15:59
  Speaker 5: for the majority of the at-bat. And it would have
• 16:03
  Speaker 5: looked like maybe Gavin Williams maybe gets out of the inning.
• 16:05
  Speaker 5: Maybe he even gets a second out in the fifth inning.
• 16:10
  Speaker 5: And Okamoto hits the home run. The Blue Jays are
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: winning and all happening at the same time. And it
• 16:16
  Speaker 5: was like it completely flipped on that at bat. The
• 16:19
  Speaker 5: Blue Jays do end up losing that game. The White Sox,
• 16:23
  Speaker 5: because before had they lost that game, they would have
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: been worried about the Guardians. They would have been worried
• 16:28
  Speaker 5: about the Blue Jays. It would have just changed so significantly.
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: And now there's one less game to play this year.
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: There you go.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: And it was the longest A-B pitch-wise since Matt Wieters,
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: talking about Tristan Peters.
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: Matt Wieters in 2020 had a 19-pitch battle.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: But that will be one of the defining moments of
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: the season for the White Sox if they are postseason
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: bound and this series continues. Let's get to some other
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: fun stuff after we talk about Sox Machine, which is
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: on every day this week, by the way.
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: They have shows.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: Some of them are morning shows that kind of lead
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: right into what we're doing. So if you are a
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: Sox fan and you want to see more, head over
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: to their YouTube channel. Great rant from AJ. Also, AJ,
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: they're rolling out a lot of openers there. the white
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: socks right now but in this case it seems like
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: you got to do what you got to do right
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: it's working so if you can't do in this case
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: yeah you.
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: Can't pitch first inning you Sean Newcomb get those first
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: three outs then bring Sean Burke who was really good
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: after that if that's what it takes early in his
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: career to figure out how to be a big league
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: pitcher because for about a month there he was one
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: of the best pitchers in baseball July and August he
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: was really good right Same with Davis Martin.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: Davis Martin lost it. They started using an opener. He's
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: been better.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: Now Sean Burke, they're using the opener. He pitched really
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: well last night. So if it works, do it. I
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: don't have a problem with it.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: If it works, do it. Just over the long haul,
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: it's hard to sustain for a long time. But if
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: it works and it helps him get better, do it.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: I'm all for it.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: Also, Kratz, big difference between that and the Rockies never
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: being in it, having Chase Dolander, who's throwing heat and
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: has just gotten into his career, and you're throwing openers
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: on him.
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: That is not it.
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: My only question was yesterday I asked Josh from Sox Machine, like,
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: does that solve it? Well, last night showed me that
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: solved it. Like, it helped him out of that first inning.
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: Can he not face the top of the order? No,
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: that's not what it is. Maybe it's something about his warm-up.
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: Maybe he doesn't need as much warm-up. Like, you have
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: to be able to ask these questions when your team
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: is winning. When the Rockies are losing, Dolander better be
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: the starting pitcher to for the next six years and
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: him get every one of those GS games started.
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: I'm with you.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: Hey, real quick pop to a foul territory shop.com. I
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: like the LMBP shirt that AJ has. Jim Bowden said
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: it's a wrap. Hey, we'll have plenty of time in
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: the off season to talk about free agency. Pitching is
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: definitely better than position players in the group this year,
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: but jazz Chisholm will be a free agent after the season.
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: And he spoke about it yesterday.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: He said that, He hasn't spoken to the Yankees since
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: the spring and also that the Yankees don't really do
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: extensions and said that when he was asked if he
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: reached out to Cashman, quote, I wouldn't say reached out
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: was more of a mutual thing. It was me walking
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: around saying something to Cashman.
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: He walked past me.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: So really the main point here, Kratz, I mean, you
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: played for the Yanks. They don't do extensions like this
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: very often. They let guys go to free agency. It's
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: just their thing and that's fine.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's totally fine.
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: I mean, they understand they have to pay extra when
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: it's free agency and they don't feel like they need
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: to do extensions. During the COVID season, I asked Cashman,
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: I just reached free agency. We were in San Diego
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: and I said, you do realize that I just reached
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: big league free agency. What are the chances you are
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: going to extend me a qualifying offer? He was like,
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: it's not completely off the table. I said, I'll settle
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: for less.
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: That was the back and forth you guys had in the.
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: Lunchroom in San Diego, which was like the concourse of
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: San Diego.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Cause it was COVID.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: Oh, I was going to say small lunchroom in San
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: Diego in the clubhouse, so that would have been a
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: tight call.
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: No, no, no.
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: It could have been some other people that would have
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: heard it. COVID, we weren't allowed to. It was only
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: me and him. I was eating my soggy salad before
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: the game, my yogurt and granola.
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: All right, TV crowd is in break.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: We're talking about SeatGeek games that you can grab a
• 20:26
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• 20:28
  Speaker 1: the regular season. This might be your last chance to
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: watch a team that does not make the playoffs. We're
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: about to talk about the Diamondbacks. They might be in
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: that spot as their two-and-a-half games back of the Padres.
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: But right now, AJ, I wanted to start with the Rangers.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: I don't feel like we've talked about the Rangers enough,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: and they're one game back of the Astros.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: We had Evan Grant on yesterday, Kevin. Scott, didn't you watch?
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: No, I'm not talking about just yesterday. I'm talking about
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: the entire season.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: I remember that one of the themes has been, I
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: feel like the Rangers, I feel like the Rangers have
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: been one of those teams that doesn't get a lot
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: of national attention, whether they're good, bad. And yeah, maybe
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: we've talked about this. Maybe this has to do with like,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: there's not a lot of big talkers on that team.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: There hasn't been like fights drama, right? Like, DeGrom doesn't
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: really talk. Seager definitely doesn't talk.
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: Right, so you're just checking. Is there a pulse? They're
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: one game back.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: They are, and they play the Red Sox the next
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: three games, so this is going to be a big
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: series for them. And if you listened to our interview
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: yesterday with Evan Grant, he'll tell you that they really
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: need to step it up at home because nine of
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: their last 12 games are at home, Scott. So if
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: you're in the Dallas area, the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, You
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: should go on SeatGeek and get tickets and go root
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: for your Rangers in Arlington and try to get them
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: to the postseason because they need all the support they
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: can get.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Kratz, I was distracted because for the interview, all I
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: could think of when I was trying to think of
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: what my favorite part of the interview was yesterday is
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: that AJ started it with some type of line along
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: the lines of, oh, you don't have any food on
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: your face or something like that.
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: There's no food dripping down your face, Evan. And Evan
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: was like, wow, thanks, AJ. Good to see you too.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Oh, he actually asked a key question. He goes, does
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: anyone get picked on more than me? And you guys
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: immediately were both like, yes, Ken Rosenthal. And I think
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: that made him feel better.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: No, I said Katie Wu.
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: I said Katie Wu gets picked on by AJ.
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: Oh, you're right.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: You said Katie.
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Either way, we've talked about him enough.
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: The Rangers, the entire AOS, you need to buy your
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: tickets to watch them because you're going to plug in
• 22:37
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• 22:39
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• 22:57
  Speaker 1: wildcard race along with.
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: The AL West. That's what she said.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what he said, presented by Lorraine Co. We
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: have Pete Alonzo returning to Queens, and the place was
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: lit up for him. Mets fans were there early, cheering
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: for him, making sure that it was well known, he
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: was appreciated, he will always be welcomed back.
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: And they miss him dearly.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: You'd have to be a fool to not think that
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Pete Alonzo on the 2026 Mets would have made them
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: a better team than the replacements that they went with.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: And also the fact that they spent, what, $ 40 million
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: on Polanco over two years. Robert ended up costing them $ 15.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, or $ 20 actually, I think it is. No,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: $ 15 because they got rid of him. That's almost, what, $ 55- ish.
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: Million right there.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: If the Mets didn't feel like he was worth $ 160
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: and he was worth $ 110, well, you just wasted it
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: right there. Anyway, let's get to Pete first and his
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: comments on if he took what happened with the Mets
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: personal or not.
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: No, because like I said before, when you have a
• 24:06
  Speaker 7: good thing coming and free agency, when you have a
• 24:08
  Speaker 7: really good opportunity, you have great dialogue, you don't necessarily
• 24:13
  Speaker 7: want to kind of ruin that.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: So for me, it's like I didn't want.
• 24:16
  Speaker 7: To look anywhere else because Baltimore was putting in a
• 24:21
  Speaker 7: tremendous effort with dialogue and having conversations. So When you
• 24:26
  Speaker 7: have something really, really good in front of you, for me,
• 24:29
  Speaker 7: especially when it comes down to business negotiations, you don't
• 24:32
  Speaker 7: want to, I guess, kind of look elsewhere.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: So for me, when Baltimore came.
• 24:39
  Speaker 7: They were obviously expressing some serious interest. And for me,
• 24:43
  Speaker 7: if they're expressing themselves seriously, then I'm going to listen seriously.
• 24:47
  Speaker 7: And eventually, as it kind of came down the wire, again,
• 24:54
  Speaker 7: I'm just so happy that Because for me, it's like
• 24:57
  Speaker 7: I feel like Baltimore's home. Again, I feel so at
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: home and really just so genuinely happy where it's like
• 25:05
  Speaker 7: I really see myself in a really good way with
• 25:08
  Speaker 7: this organization. Hopefully I get to finish my career here
• 25:11
  Speaker 7: as an Oriole. So, again, I'd be unblessed to be
• 25:14
  Speaker 7: an Oriole.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: Good answer. Good answer.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: I mean, listen, he got an awesome ovation last night.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: The fans cheered the crap out of him his first at-bat.
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: He got to do the old doffing. He got to
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: do the old, Hey, look at me. I'm going to
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: doff my cap to everybody and let's get down to business.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: And I think I was watching, I believe I was
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: watching the Mets broadcast and when he came up and
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: I wanted to see his first at bat and they said,
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: Pete has to be nervous.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: A hundred percent.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: He was a little bit more nervous, a little bit
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: more jacked up because it's the first time you played
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: against a team that basically said, Hey, you know what, Pete,
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: you're our all time home run leader in our franchise history.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: And we're going to let you walk away, which doesn't
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: happen a whole lot. It did for Pete. And yeah,
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: Good for him answering it the right way. He loves Baltimore.
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: I saw him a couple weeks ago. He's happy as
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: can be in Baltimore. He loves the team he's on,
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: and he's having an unbelievable year. So good for you, Pete.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: It sucks you're not a Met. It sucks you weren't
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: a Met for life, but you know what? Good for
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: you for answering the question the right way.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: Twice. Twice the Mets.
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: Really didn't want him back.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: Yes, I get it.
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: They signed him to a one-year deal after his original
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: time through free agency. But you have to– Pete's talking
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: about the offseason, and when the Orioles called, he wasn't
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: going to be like, hey, Mets, somebody's calling.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: What are you guys doing?
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: He really showed what he's showed his whole career, just
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: respect to the person, to the team that's in front
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: of him. And I think the fact that he went
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: through free agency, didn't get the offers that I personally
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: thought he should have gotten, whether he thought he should
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: have or not, I would assume he felt a little slighted,
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: went out and had another great year, And then the
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: Mets didn't come courting him, didn't come after him like
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: he probably thinks.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: You know what?
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: That ship sailed. And good for him for saying, you
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: know what? These guys pursued me. I'm going to go
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: after him instead of, I'm going to go after them.
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: And I'm going to see what they want to do
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: and develop this relationship. And he's going to be beloved
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: in Baltimore just like he was loved in New York.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's relatable, likable, and he leads the American League
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: and runs batted in. putting up similar power numbers that
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: he always does.
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: He's having a better year based on OPS Plus than
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: his career average. So if you're sitting there as an
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: Oriole fan and go, oh, I wonder if this is
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: worth it, or a Mets fan or a Mets front
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: office and going, I wonder if he would be worth
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: it in the first year.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: Well, check. Pete Alonzo, well worth it.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: AJ, to me, the Mets were treating him like he
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: was about to become Chris Davis. And ironically, he goes
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: to the team that paid Chris Davis. and said, no,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: you are not going to be Chris Davis post-extension.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they treated him the way he wanted to be treated,
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: which is what he said. They were openly engaging him.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: They're telling him, we want you. Listen, a player wants
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: to hear that they're wanted.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: I don't care.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: You know, people can say whatever. They want to hear
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: that they're wanted. And after what he went through last
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: year and then have to go through it again. And
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: when Pete said, you know, he told David Stearns, you know,
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: but I'll be going to the Hall of Fame and
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: you'll be worried about your stupid formula or whatever.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: I forget the exact quote. I know it wasn't the
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: exact quote. But good for you, Pete, because you know what?
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: The Orioles wanted you, and you ended up there, and
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: you're having a kick-ass year, man. Good for you.
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: Yep, they did the tribute video.
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah, there's two ways that you can be shown that
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: you're wanted. A team tells you you're wanted and gives
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: you an extension on the team that you're at, or
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: you go to free agency, and what AJ's saying is
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: the team that gives you the biggest offer isn't like, well,
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: we just don't want you to go back to the Mets.
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: The Orioles could care less about that in free agency
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: in this situation. Like, they're showing you, and it might
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: sound vain, it might sound greedy by players, but that's
• 29:00
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  Speaker 1: Francisco Lindor was asked about the replacement situation this year
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: with Pete and if he was missed.
• 30:25
  Speaker 6: I mean, you can see the numbers. But at the
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: end of the day, I thought the guys that we
• 30:30
  Speaker 6: acquired were going to help us win games.
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: We just haven't played.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: We haven't performed to our best.
• 30:35
  Speaker 6: So it's one of those that you see him on
• 30:40
  Speaker 6: the other side, you're like, wow, those are great numbers.
• 30:42
  Speaker 6: That's Pete Alonso. But at the same time, you look
• 30:46
  Speaker 6: in our clubhouse and you say the guys that we
• 30:48
  Speaker 6: have are capable of helping us win ballgames. It's just
• 30:51
  Speaker 6: we haven't stayed healthy and we haven't put the season together,
• 30:54
  Speaker 6: you know. So as a person, I do miss him
• 30:58
  Speaker 6: for sure.
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he misses him.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: And also, I mean, well, you should if in a
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: real world you would.
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: Buy the C & T, he goes, yes. We messed up.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but what's he supposed to say?
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: You don't.
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: Want to bash your teammates that are there now, right?
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: You don't want to bash Pete. You don't want to
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: bash the front office. You don't want to bash the fans.
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: I mean, Francisco nailed it. Again, Pete nailed it with
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: his comments. Francisco nailed it with his comments, right? Both
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: of them were very professional. They said what they needed
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: to say without getting personal and without taking shots at anybody.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: I mean, I salute everybody in this situation. It sucks.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: I wish Pete, again, would have been a Met his
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: entire career, just like I hope Francisco Lindor finished his
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: career as a Met because he's been there for a
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: long time now. And when he goes to Cooperstown one day,
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: he's probably going to go in as a Met. Sorry,
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: Guardian fans, but that's just the way it is. And
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: I wish more people got the opportunity. It doesn't happen
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: very often to play one career with one team. And
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: I wish it happened more, but it doesn't.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: Hey, the Orioles would be like 10 games out of
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: a wild card spot if they didn't have Pete and
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: what he's been doing for them. They needed that righty thump.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Right-handed thump in the sport right now is at a
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: premium in general. We bring it up a lot in
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: the off seasons, right? Remember how coveted Taylor Ward was
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: last off season and the Orioles actually landed him and
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: then eventually traded him and he has not performed well
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: in his new spot. But it's hard right now to
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: find good right-handed power. And the Orioles have that here
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: with Pete for a while.
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: So good for them.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: They've been trying to find it with a number of
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: different bats via trade and signings. And this one's working
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: for them. So the last part for me is to
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: just credit the Mets fan base.
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: They showed up. Actually, most of them, many of them
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: left after Pete's last at bat. What was that? Eighth
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: inning tie game. They're like, yeah, we're good. Season's over.
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: We came for Pete. See, Orioles won the game and
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: it was a good one. It was close. Gunnar Henderson
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: laid Homer, but props to Mets fans.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, New York has high expectations as a city.
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: Mets fans' expectations are different from Yankees fans, no doubt.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: But them showing up and selling the place out for
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: this and giving him all of the ovations and all that,
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: it's cool.
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: It was a cool moment. It was a fun game
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: to watch.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: That's why we're talking about the Mets, maybe for the
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: last time until November.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: Jonah Tong fits well. Jonah Tong fits well.
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Jonah Tong.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: Instead of Brandon Young, by the way.
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: Yes. Yes.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Jonah Tong has had a tough year, actually, in the
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: minor leagues, giving up a lot of homers. Command hasn't
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: been good, a lot of walks. But he's working with
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: the Mets. Mets have a lot of evaluating to do
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: in the offseason, AJ. Do you see what– we could
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: do a whole segment maybe next week on what Freddie
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: Peralta is doing and what they changed with him in
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: five minutes. To me, if I'm Steve Cohen, I'm pissed
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: about that.
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: If I'm the owner of the Mets, I'm like, hold up.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: We spent all of this trade– we traded for him,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: so we spent up resources and then paying Freddie Peralta.
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: We trade him away.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: He has one bad start where he's obviously just sinking
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: in with the team five seconds later. Then they start
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: going over what changes they want. And now he looks
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: like a number one starter.
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: What happened?
• 34:03
  Speaker 5: I promise it wasn't big changes. I know Kyle Snyder.
• 34:06
  Speaker 5: I've seen the development of pitchers in that organization and
• 34:10
  Speaker 5: guys switching over. I'm sure it wasn't crazy. It wasn't this, like,
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: crazy manipulation. We don't know what it is yet. We'll
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: find out from Freddie P or people around it. But
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: I'm sure it's not crazy. So, yes, Uncle Stevie has
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: a big question to ask, and he has a valid
• 34:30
  Speaker 5: question to ask his on-field coaches.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: True.
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: He's been great. By the way, did you guys see this?
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: And I don't know if it has to be true
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: because they said it on TV. Brandon Young, who pitched
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: for the Orioles last night, has had two Tommy Johns.
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: Do you know how old he was when he had
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: his first Tommy John?
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: I'm going to guess that it's very young. 14, yeah.
• 34:55
  Speaker 7: 13.
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: I was like, wait, I had to rewind it and
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: listen to it. He was 13 years old when he
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: had his first Tommy John.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: I was like, whoa, that's crazy.
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: That is crazy.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: That's about as early as it gets there. that's a
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: whole nother topic too, that we can get.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: No, I know.
• 35:11
  Speaker 6: I know.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: It was just, it was just an interesting fact they
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: brought up on, on the, again, I think I was
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: watching the Mets broadcast last night.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: It was, it was an interesting fact.
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: Skipping rocks. Torres, TJ Torres, UCL skipping rocks. That's what
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: I was doing at 13.
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: Unless he had a youth coach. That's telling them.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: Here's son. One's fastball. Two is slider. Three is curveball.
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: Four is changing. You never know.
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: And you know, Scott never played baseball. How do you
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: know Scott never played baseball, Kratz? That's what he just said.
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: I'm doing the wrong numbers. Got it.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: That was casual. It was casual. I never played.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: Wait, but I do have notes to finish this on
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: Freddy Peralta. Number one, more change-ups, which is a thing
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: with the Rays in general. Number two, defense is way
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: better behind him. And number three, he was having problems
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: with his extension off the mound with the Mets. It
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: looks like he's fixed that. So that's actually a lot
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: of fixes in five minutes.
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: We can do a segment on it.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: But the Mets did run prevention all offseason. Remember, run prevention.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: Run prevention until I die. Outfield looks good with Ewing
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: and Bench, but I digress. Let's get to another team
• 36:16
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• 36:19
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  Speaker 1: Hey, this isn't great, although it's been a problem. Reynaldo Lopez,
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: shoulder discomfort, you know, didn't look good. It looks like
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: he's going to be done for the year in my mind.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: And then JR Richie's going to start Wednesday's game. I mean, Schwellenbach,
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: you know, hasn't been a thing, obviously, done.
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: Schreider, done. It's crazy.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: Waldrop, how many good arms they have that have gone down, AJ. Yet,
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: I mean, this is a really good-looking team. Sale, Molly
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: has looked amazing with them for the most part. Martin
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: Perez looking really good. Are you worried about their postseason
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: rotation is my question.
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it was Reynaldo Lopez they put
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: in the bullpen. This is one of the big questions
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: about Reynaldo Lopez when he went from a reliever to
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: a starter. Remember, he had some good times and it
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: was like, oh man, and it was his shoulder, right? Well,
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: his shoulder is barking again as being a starter. Am
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: I worried about it? Yeah, it's Chris Sale and then
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: Bryce Elder's down. Now Lopez goes down. I mean, Martin
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: Perez has had a great year, but are you counting
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: on him as a.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: Game two starter? I love Martin Perez. Okay. And then,
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: I mean, their bullpen's really good. Their team can really hit.
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: It's pretty amazing that Walt Weiss deserves some manager of
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: the year credit.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: Excuse me. Sorry.
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: I agree. They nailed that decision.
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: Because just because of what he's been able to do with,
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: I mean, I know every team has injuries, but their
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: team has really had some injuries.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: Especially in the starting rotation. He's used the bullpen well.
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's a.
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: Tailor-made sign of a good manager is using the bullpen well.
• 38:10
  Speaker 5: I think maybe he could have given some of these guys.
• 38:13
  Speaker 5: You're seeing some guys kind of slowly taper off as
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: the season's going on in the position player. I thought
• 38:19
  Speaker 5: some of these guys would play less games. Matt Olsen's
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: never going to come out. Looks like he's a little tired.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: We'll see.
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: I think this is a really tough team in the
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: playoffs because of that bullpen.
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: Hey, the Yankees clinched a postseason spot. The age-old debate. AJ,
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: do you celebrate? You should, right?
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: Because the Yankees are not in line to win the division,
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: so you should toast it up, go.
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: Out with the boys, right?
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: 100%. At least do something. A little toast, a little something.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: Enjoy it.
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: I'm not saying full-fledged champagne the whole deal, but you
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: should definitely celebrate it and you definitely should be rewarded because, again,
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: there's been a lot of teams that haven't made the
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: postseason very often.
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: Rockies, right? Look at the Rockies. They haven't made it.
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: They don't make it very often. There's teams that don't
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: make it. Marlins don't make it very often. Teams that
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: don't make it very often, when you get a chance
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: to make it, you should celebrate it. I'm not saying full-fledged.
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: Champagne bath, you see him there. Ben Rice looks really
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: happy in that picture, by the way.
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: But you should celebrate it.
• 39:21
  Speaker 5: I say you celebrate it like it's your last. Like
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: you never know if you're ever going to make the
• 39:26
  Speaker 5: playoffs again. 2018, Cubs never celebrated. and they made it
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: to the playoffs, and they never got to pop champagne.
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: I just, I think it's too hard. The season's too long.
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: Nothing's guaranteed. You're never guaranteed next season. It might be
• 39:42
  Speaker 5: the last time that some of those guys ever pop champagne. So,
• 39:45
  Speaker 5: I'm not saying you should ever go out and go crazy,
• 39:48
  Speaker 5: go nuts. Because you still have games. You still have
• 39:51
  Speaker 5: a goal to win the division. But act like you
• 39:55
  Speaker 5: are going to win 100 of them. Celebrate like it's
• 39:57
  Speaker 5: your last.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: Also, can I just, while we're talking AL East, get
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: a note in on the Blue Jays? I know we
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: mentioned at the top of the show for a second,
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: but oof. That's a tough way to lose yesterday. Kaz
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: Akamoto with the huge home run for them. But ultimately,
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: John Schneider said the toss from Vlad was okay, and
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: Barland just kind of dropped it.
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: Right? Covering first. Yeah.
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's not why they lost. They lost on
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: the blue pit down the left field line that tied
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: the game.
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: And then they got a hit. I mean, it was
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: first and third and no out of it. When the
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: ball to first was hit, the guy was going to score.
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: So, I mean, that wasn't why they lost the game.
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: It doesn't matter. Yeah.
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: That's fair.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah. That's tough. That's tough to put it on that.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: I mean, there was multiple things that they lost that game.
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: I think he was on second. Well, yeah.
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: It would have been, sorry. It would have been first
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: and third, whatever with no outs, whatever it was. So,
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: I mean, You can play the if game.
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the bloop that fell in. The inning before.
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: The inning before. The bloop that fell in.
• 40:55
  Speaker 5: The hardest part is Louie Varlin pitched an inning plus there.
• 40:59
  Speaker 5: I think it was an inning and a third or
• 41:00
  Speaker 5: inning and two thirds. You got to come back out
• 41:03
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• 41:05
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  Speaker 1: They clinched a postseason berth for the 14th straight season.
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: And they're winning a lot lately, and things are good.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: And if anything, sometimes, AJ, I feel like we can
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: be too critical about the Dodgers. But we did bring
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: up how Edwin Diaz is struggling. Edgardo Henriquez going down
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: for at least the rest of the regular season, if
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: not more.
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: That's a big loss for them, too.
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: He's been pretty solid, and he's pumping Velo, finding his
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: own more sub-3 ERA.
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: He's hurt.
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: Listen, I saw what Dave Roberts said last night after
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: they clinched, and Eduardo Henriquez going down, our friend Katie Wu,
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: and then Edwin Diaz struggling. But let me just– what
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: Dave Roberts said last night was kind of perfect. He's like,
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: people underestimate how special it is to get to the
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: postseason in baseball. And when he says there's new guys,
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: there's guys that have been here, and it's about the
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: culture that they built, I 100% agree. It's about the
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: culture the Dodgers have built. Yes, they spend money. Yes,
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: they have really good players. But those players also fit together,
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: and they know the standard that they're held to. And
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: when they bring in a guy like Tarek Skubal, or
• 43:20
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• 43:22
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• 43:24
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• 43:27
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• 43:28
  Speaker 2: And there's no egos involved. That's pretty awesome.
• 43:31
  Speaker 5: Because we're not in there, we're only looking from the
• 43:34
  Speaker 5: outsider's view. Dave Roberts is the best manager in the
• 43:38
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• 43:41
  Speaker 5: Anybody could manage that. It's just the, you know, they're
• 43:44
  Speaker 5: the Monstars. They're the Space Jam team. They're superstars.
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: They are.
• 43:49
  Speaker 5: But they've had to win in different ways. They've had
• 43:51
  Speaker 5: to make adjustments. In Dave Roberts' tenure, he almost got
• 43:55
  Speaker 5: fired and then won two World Series. He went from,
• 43:59
  Speaker 5: you know, hey, you know what? I got to learn
• 44:01
  Speaker 5: to play some of these lefties against lefties because they
• 44:04
  Speaker 5: get better They get better looks, and it makes their
• 44:06
  Speaker 5: all-there at-bats for the entire season better. He had to
• 44:09
  Speaker 5: make adjustments with the front office that also had to
• 44:12
  Speaker 5: make adjustments. And he's helped build that culture as much,
• 44:17
  Speaker 5: if not more, than anybody else that's in there.
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: Yes, players. Yes, front office. Yes, Friedman. All that stuff.
• 44:22
  Speaker 5: But the best way that I tell people, like, well,
• 44:26
  Speaker 5: who's the best manager right now in the game? I
• 44:28
  Speaker 5: say it has to be Dave Roberts. He won one
• 44:30
  Speaker 5: World Series with essentially all– bullpen guys, and he won
• 44:36
  Speaker 5: the next World Series with essentially all starters. He's making
• 44:42
  Speaker 5: those adjustments. His baseball acuum is incredible. His ability to
• 44:47
  Speaker 5: talk to people from all walks of life to get
• 44:50
  Speaker 5: them to all push in the same direction is incredible.
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: All right, people, let's slap.
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: We have moves being made, just some little pickups and
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: adds and drops. Jesus Sanchez is going to make his
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: D-backs debut tonight at DH against the Marlins. Diamondbacks are
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: basically in, I mean, like we talked about with Steve Perthume.
• 45:24
  Speaker 4: Got to win them all.
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: I mean, not all, but just you got to be where?
• 45:28
  Speaker 4: Two games back? Do we know what the season series is?
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: No, you have to be one because if they win
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: one and you're out, you have to win one. You
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: have to be within one game.
• 45:37
  Speaker 4: Because of the season series.
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 45:40
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: So two is really three. So it's got to be
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: one so that it's two. Cause then going into the
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: final series, which is Diamondbacks Padres, you'd have to win
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: two out of three so that you're one game up,
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: not tied.
• 45:52
  Speaker 4: If you were one game back.
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: Yep. Yes. Correct. That was good math. Good mathing. Good mathing, Scott.
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: Thank you. What else do you have for us?
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: I got one quick thing. Uh, I didn't, I haven't
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: talked about this Sunday. I woke up and there was
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: an owl in my backyard, a great horned owl it's called. Uh,
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: and it was injured and, uh, it was in my
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: backyard and I had to, I had to throw a
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: blanket over it and I took it.
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: To the Audubon society. Okay.
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: And, and I didn't even know this was existed, but
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: I had to try to figure out what to do
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: with this owl. I couldn't let my dogs out. My dogs,
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: it was going to get into a fight and it
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: couldn't fly. It didn't look healthy. So we had to
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: put it into a box and I had to drive
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: it up to the other side of town and took
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: it into the Audubon Society. And they have this giant
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: thing that I didn't even know existed.
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: It was a.
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: Basically a rescue center for hawks and eagles and owls
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: and all this stuff.
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: Right. It was really awesome. So we gave it to him.
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: There was someone that brought in a hawk while I
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: was there that had eaten it. And this is the owl.
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: Poor little guy.
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: Um, but I found out today you called, I called
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: to check on him. He was blind in both eyes.
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: So I had to, they had to put him down.
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: So it was, it was kind of a sad thing.
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: I'm like, did everything I could, but man, I mean,
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: if it, listen, the Audubon society, thank you for all
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: your help.
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: Thank you for what you guys are doing, but, uh,
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: kind of a little bit sad. I I'm sorry.
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: So, uh, yeah, uh, it sucks, but did everything I could.
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: And for people that say I'm heartless, I tried to
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: save the owl, tried.
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: To save it.
• 47:23
  Speaker 4: That's not heartless. You tried to save the owl.
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: No, I said people that say I'm heartless. I'm just saying.
• 47:27
  Speaker 4: Oh, for people that say I'm heartless.
• 47:29
  Speaker 3: By the way, the Audubon Society, I'm going to donate
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: to them because, I mean, the things that they, like
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: I said, someone brought in a hawk that had eaten
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: a rat that had eaten rat poison. So they have
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: to flush it with fluids to try to save that.
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: So it was a pretty incredible thing. And a lot
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: of it's volunteer work. So if you can, you know,
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: I know Alana's big into dogs, but if you can
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: support things like that, causes like that, please, please do.
• 47:55
  Speaker 4: That's admirable. That's really cool.
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean, sad to hear that that particular
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: owl didn't make it. But yeah, you know, I would
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: say just in general, a lot of things going on
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: in the local community people don't realize are a thing.
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: So there's a lot of good work being put together
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: behind the scenes for stuff like that.
• 48:14
  Speaker 4: On our way out here, two things. One, Kratzath, what
• 48:17
  Speaker 4: do you got?
• 48:20
  Speaker 5: I was going to tell a story about what the
• 48:21
  Speaker 5: Yankees do when they clinch. I'll save it for another
• 48:24
  Speaker 5: time when we see more champagne. I think the Yankees
• 48:27
  Speaker 5: do it. Maybe other teams do it, but if the
• 48:31
  Speaker 5: Yankees do another champagne shower, I'll talk about it and
• 48:34
  Speaker 5: bring a prop in from when I played with the Yankees.
• 48:37
  Speaker 4: Can you just bring it tomorrow and I'll put it
• 48:38
  Speaker 4: in a reminder to do it at the top of
• 48:40
  Speaker 4: the show?
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll see if anybody else does it. AJ, you'll
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: be on tomorrow, right? I think so, unless we get fired.
• 48:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, same. So we'll be on tomorrow for it.
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: It's 50-50 at Best Grouts.
• 48:55
  Speaker 4: It's always 50-50.
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you might get replaced by Penelope. And, yeah, lastly,
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: hot sheets coming up next. They're going to talk about
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: Josue de Paula.
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: Have you guys been saying the name right? Yeah, Josue.
• 49:11
  Speaker 4: Josue. Humbled. Humbled.
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: Humbled in his first at-bat. I mean, first home run.
• 49:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: He's got a little Soto in him, too. A little
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: Soto in him. in him. That's a nice swing. That
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: dude is good.
• 49:23
  Speaker 5: I know Hot Sheet's going to go more into that,
• 49:25
  Speaker 5: but that dude, watching some of his minor league at-bats
• 49:27
  Speaker 5: are awesome.
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: Sometimes I'm watching a guy like him, and I'm like,
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: how are the Dodgers landing these guys over and over again?
• 49:35
  Speaker 4: You know?
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. The Tigers didn't want him for Tarek Skubal.
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: I'm kidding. He wasn't available. He wasn't available. I was kidding.
• 49:43
  Speaker 4: All right. Well, we'll see everyone tomorrow if AJ is
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: invited back.
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: Did you bring your dog day tomorrow? Bring your dog
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: to work tomorrow?
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: The maintenance came two hours early and opened the door
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: and wasn't speaking my language and said, we're coming in
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: no matter what.
• 49:58
  Speaker 4: And my dog freaked out.
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: That's a show.
• 50:01
  Speaker 7: Cuidado!
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: Cuidado! Perro! Perro! Ay, Dios mio!
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