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Giants offseason report w/Slusser · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: Here we go. Susan Sluster are joining us right now
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Speaker 1: and you can check her out on the brand new
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Speaker 1: Splash Hit Territory about six weeks old as a regular
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Speaker 1: contributor there fp Santangelo hosting great show and of course
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Speaker 1: checking out all of Susan Slusser's articles as well, including
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Speaker 1: many in the San Francisco Chronicle about what the Giants
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Speaker 1: are up to this offseason. Susan, great to see you,
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Speaker 1: and yeah, let's get right to the good stuff. So
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Speaker 1: fans have been asking all day, actually giants, questions about
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Speaker 1: what's next and are they really involved on the second
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Speaker 1: base market. Are you about to make everyone in that
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Speaker 1: crowd very happy or a little disappointed?
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Speaker 2: Sorr, I got very angry Kat right now, who wants
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Speaker 2: to get fed? You know what, this could be the
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Speaker 2: shortest segment you guys have ever had because the Giants
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Speaker 2: just like they seem like they're doing almost nothing. You know, yes,
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Speaker 2: they've filled out their rotation sort of at the with
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Speaker 2: back end guys, but it's been underwhelming and all the
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Speaker 2: signaling from ownership has been that they are not going
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Speaker 2: to spend a time, They're not going to do long
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Speaker 2: term deals. I'm a little baffled because, yes, the Dodgers
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Speaker 2: are the power, not just in the division but in baseball.
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Speaker 2: They're looking up in the division for sure, but they
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Speaker 2: missed the playoffs by two games last year. All you
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Speaker 2: have to do is make the playoffs. The Giants dynasty
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Speaker 2: showed that they were never the best team those years.
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Speaker 2: They got some very clear needs and I feel like
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Speaker 2: they need to address them.
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Speaker 3: But doesn't Buster. If ownership says, Okay, we're not going
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Speaker 3: to go big on anybody, he isn't Buster's MO. And
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Speaker 3: I guess he's not been a GM for this long
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Speaker 3: to have a GMMO. But just the way he played,
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Speaker 3: the way he's talked since he's been a GM, doesn't
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Speaker 3: that just mean he's going to go after one of
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Speaker 3: these trades? Or is there something that ownership says, no, no, no,
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Speaker 3: we don't want to risk the future of our organization.
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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I don't know how you that line
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Speaker 2: as sort of a new GM. But he's Buster Posey.
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Speaker 2: You know, he comes with his own cachet. He's a
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Speaker 2: franchise icon, and he's a part owner, you know, very
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Speaker 2: small percentage, but he's in that ownership group. They obviously
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Speaker 2: do listen to him, and he has said repeatedly when
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Speaker 2: he goes to them with an idea, they have been
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Speaker 2: very supportive. So I'm not sure what to make of that. Right,
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Speaker 2: he knows their needs. First of all, they need another outfielder.
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Speaker 2: They need a very strong defensive outfielder at the least,
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Speaker 2: but with their offense being mediocre at best most of
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Speaker 2: last season, they need a really good defensive outfielder who
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Speaker 2: can also hit. A Cody Bellinger type or you know,
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Speaker 2: at least Harrison Vader, someone like that. We have seen
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Speaker 2: really no indications. They may calls on a lot of
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Speaker 2: guys early on, but we just haven't seen any major action.
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Speaker 2: But he's buster posey, and we do know he likes
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Speaker 2: to take big swings. The Devers deal, hiring Tony Vaitello
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Speaker 2: out of the college ranks, I mean, these things are
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Speaker 2: really huge decisions, and he did talk ownership into both
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Speaker 2: of them. I think he needs to try to talk
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Speaker 2: ownership into adding probably another starting pitcher, but certainly a
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Speaker 2: good bat who can play in the outfield, because their
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Speaker 2: outfield defense was the worst in the league last year
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Speaker 2: and their offense was just not enough to compete with.
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Speaker 4: Okay, before I get to My follow up question I
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Speaker 4: want to know this is that because Buster Posey doesn't
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Speaker 4: want to spend money, because surely he wants to spend money,
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Speaker 4: and he knows that better players and more money makes
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Speaker 4: you a better team. So does he not have the
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Speaker 4: cachet with the ownership group and I know he's Buster
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Speaker 4: Posey and I know all that stuff where he can
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Speaker 4: go to them and say, hey, we need another twenty
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Speaker 4: five million to add a outfield or a starting pitcher
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Speaker 4: or a bullpen or whatever they might need or a
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Speaker 4: second baseman, where his owner just like nope, because they
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Speaker 4: sell out San Francisco and they're decent. That place is rocking,
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Speaker 4: they have the you know, all the stuff going on
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Speaker 4: around it. So what is why is that not happening
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Speaker 4: where they can go and say, hey, I need twenty
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Speaker 4: five more million guys.
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Speaker 2: I mean, he seems convinced that when he wants to
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Speaker 2: spend big they will let him. We just aren't seeing it.
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Speaker 2: So again, there's just sort of a disconnect between what
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Speaker 2: he's saying and what ownership is saying, and then what
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Speaker 2: we're seeing happening slash not happening at all. Really, maybe
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Speaker 2: they're waiting to pick up some deals closer towards spring training.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if that's necessarily going to happen, but
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Speaker 2: you know, early on the Athletic reported that they would
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Speaker 2: not be in am I Giants fans were outraged, but
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Speaker 2: as it turned out, they could have afforded am I
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Speaker 2: if they wanted. You know, absolutely they could. They could
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Speaker 2: have been in on you know, maybe not Tucker, but
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Speaker 2: certainly they could be in on Cody Bellinger. Greg Johnson
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Speaker 2: told me at the very Star to the off season,
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Speaker 2: right after Vitello was hired, actually that the team doesn't
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Speaker 2: want those big contracts. They've got five right now. They
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Speaker 2: don't want a ton on the books, particularly starting pitching.
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Speaker 2: But he also said they're not afraid to go over
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Speaker 2: the luxury attacks, which they've done before. But last year
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Speaker 2: their payroll was down and again they just missed the postseason.
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Speaker 2: So you know, look a lot of reasons for that.
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Speaker 2: I thought that Posey's moves at the time, at the
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Speaker 2: deadline and moving essentially the back into the rotation with
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Speaker 2: Camilla de Wall and Tyler Rodgers, I thought that was
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Speaker 2: the right thing to do. As it turned out, the
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Speaker 2: bullpen just wasn't enough down the stretch. With Randy Rodriguez
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Speaker 2: getting hurt and they just missed out. So add you know,
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Speaker 2: sometimes your windows you've got these five guys, your windows
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Speaker 2: can be short. You got to strike even if the
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Speaker 2: Dodgers are in your division. So it's going to be
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Speaker 2: interesting to see this next four weeks or so. I
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Speaker 2: think they still have to do something more and in
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Speaker 2: part to get the fans excited again. Their attendance was
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Speaker 2: way up last year. Take advantage of that great.
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Speaker 4: So why don't they just follow what the Dodgers doing,
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Speaker 4: do high av short term deals.
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Speaker 5: I don't know.
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Speaker 4: It seems like a win to me. Give opt outs
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Speaker 4: like they do a Chapman and man, it's weird he
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Speaker 4: end up staying.
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Speaker 5: I don't know, but.
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Speaker 2: That's a nice deal with Snell two years ago.
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Speaker 4: You know, just just a thought if you had, if
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Speaker 4: you had to pick one thing that they need, would
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Speaker 4: it be an outfielder, Would it be a starting pitcher,
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Speaker 4: would it be a second baseman? If Buster Posey has
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Speaker 4: one bullet in his gun and he goes to ownership says,
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Speaker 4: I want to shoot this one bullet, which one would
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Speaker 4: help them the most?
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Speaker 2: For me outfield? Just because their outfield play was so
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Speaker 2: bad and that outfield is enormous, and you could fix
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Speaker 2: the offense at the same time. That's like a two
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Speaker 2: for if you get a really competent all around outfielder,
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Speaker 2: you could maybe if it's a center fielder fingers crossed,
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Speaker 2: you can move Jung who Lee over and I think
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Speaker 2: he'd be actually play really well in right. He's got
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Speaker 2: a decent arm. He's he just can't quite handle that.
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Speaker 3: Nice you were talking about the outfield defense and you
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Speaker 3: just brought up Jung Hu Lee. Wasn't he brought in
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Speaker 3: to be an elite defender?
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Speaker 1: Was he?
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Speaker 3: Isn't he being paid one hundred million dollars? Did that
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Speaker 3: shoulder injury that he sustained slamming into the wall or
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Speaker 3: jumping over the wall, like, did that hurt his elite
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Speaker 3: defense or was that a poor misread when they signed him?
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Speaker 2: I think there are a lot of things going on,
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Speaker 2: you know, running into the wall certainly didn't help but
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Speaker 2: after he came back from that shoulder surgery, he went
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Speaker 2: he plowed straight into the wall again right really early
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Speaker 2: on in the season. So I don't think there's necessarily fear.
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Speaker 2: He is a little tentative when it comes to being
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Speaker 2: the guy in sharp arch in center, which is you know,
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Speaker 2: not ideal in centerfield. That a lot of miscommunication, but
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Speaker 2: he also had a lot of different guys he was
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Speaker 2: playing with, particularly and right, the numbers at Oracle do
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Speaker 2: skew defensive metrics. There's no doubt about that. If we
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Speaker 2: isolated road defense, it's a little bit better. I think
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Speaker 2: he is a competent outfielder. I just think he might
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Speaker 2: play a little bit better and right if you get
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Speaker 2: a real, real top notch center fielder, and then you know,
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Speaker 2: you start to look like you have an okay defense.
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Speaker 2: Elliott Ramos took a step backward in left. He has
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Speaker 2: said that he had got some stuff kind of in
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Speaker 2: his head, maybe focused, you know, a little bit too
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Speaker 2: much on some wrong things, and he feels like he
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Speaker 2: will be better if that outfield is better. You know,
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Speaker 2: maybe there's your two wins right there, or.
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Speaker 3: Is it in the prospects the great prospects that's what
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Speaker 3: built That's what built the Giants team, and then they
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Speaker 3: supplemented it in ten, twelve, fourteen, sixteen, whenever Crawford and
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Speaker 3: Posey retired and Brandon Bell was already out of the game.
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Speaker 3: Isn't that how the Giants push themselves over? Are these
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Speaker 3: prospects ready? Is Bryce Eldrick going to be the guy
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Speaker 3: or are the Giants afraid to let him be the guy?
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Speaker 2: Well, you know, I think the pitching might be a
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Speaker 2: little bit more of a sure thing. Guys. I think
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Speaker 2: bird Song will figure things out. I think wizen Hunt
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Speaker 2: is pretty close to being very much big league ready.
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Speaker 2: Bryce Eldridge is a you know, I think he will
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Speaker 2: flourish as a hitter. He doesn't really have a position.
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Speaker 2: He's learning first base. He's very driven. He said the
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Speaker 2: other day at their first fan fest that he wants
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Speaker 2: to be a Gold Glove winner. Great, he'll be working
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Speaker 2: with Ron Washington. He will definitely improve. But Rafael Devers
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Speaker 2: will be the first baseman the bulk of the time.
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Speaker 2: So you're talking about a twenty one year old. I
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Speaker 2: think he's very valuable as a trade ship. I don't
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Speaker 2: think anyone wants to see him moved but if the
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Speaker 2: Giants could get a big piece, especially somebody that has
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Speaker 2: some service time that's controllable, I think that they would
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Speaker 2: consider moving Bryce Eldridge. He might be most valuable, but
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Speaker 2: like that, but you know, it's also would be very,
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Speaker 2: very painful to lose a guy who's got forty plus
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Speaker 2: potentially home run power. So I don't know. I don't
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Speaker 2: know where I stand with that. I think he is
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Speaker 2: big League ready from the offensive standpoint, and he was
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Speaker 2: playing last year with a bad wrist. He had a
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Speaker 2: bone spur, had surgery, set, everything's going great. He's ready
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Speaker 2: to go essentially full go for spring, so I think
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Speaker 2: he will be nothing but better this year.
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Speaker 4: I want to know about Patrick Bailey, Susan. I think
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Speaker 4: one time you said he reminded you of me, but
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Speaker 4: clearly not because I could hit and he couldn't catch,
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Speaker 4: couldn't care. He can catch and can't hint. So is
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Speaker 4: there improvement? Is there a next step? Because he is
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Speaker 4: so good defensively, can they just get something out of
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Speaker 4: him offensively? And I know he was better in the
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Speaker 4: second half, but is there more in the tank offensively?
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Speaker 4: Because I think this guy has defensively has the ability
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Speaker 4: to be a star. But can they figure out a
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Speaker 4: way to get some offense at him.
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Speaker 2: First of all, I want to see the tape of
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Speaker 2: me comparing it to you.
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Speaker 4: You said it one time that he reminds you of me,
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Speaker 4: and I was like that, poor guy.
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Speaker 2: He's a very good talker. Maybe that was it.
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Speaker 5: That was it perfect, you know what.
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Speaker 2: He was much better in the second half. Actually he
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Speaker 2: figured some things out. I would like to see how
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Speaker 2: he does. And that was really the knock on him
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Speaker 2: his first two years. He really wore down in the
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Speaker 2: second half, and some injuries contributed the year before last
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Speaker 2: for sure, but he got nothing but better throughout last year.
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Speaker 2: Great sign. I think when he put some of the
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Speaker 2: things that he realized about his swing together.
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Speaker 3: It's tough.
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Speaker 2: You know, he's a switch hitter. It's tough to keep
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Speaker 2: both those swings going and run a pitching staff, for sure.
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Speaker 2: I've asked a few times, has anybody ever considered, you know,
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Speaker 2: having him just hit righty or just hit lefty, you know,
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Speaker 2: if whichever way is more comfortable, and nobody's considered that.
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Speaker 2: I don't think that that's an option. And I think
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Speaker 2: the fact that he really has picked up the pace
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Speaker 2: on both sides. I think pretty happy with them. And
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Speaker 2: you know what, he's so elite defensively even you know,
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Speaker 2: there's an argument that the ABS system will take away
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Speaker 2: some of the pitch framing value. He's such a good
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Speaker 2: He's still going to be a gold glove catcher no
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Speaker 2: matter what they do with any sort of replay. So
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Speaker 2: I think they would be fine, just fine. If he
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Speaker 2: hits two forty and you know, twelve to fifteen homers
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Speaker 2: or something like that, I think there's more power in there.
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Speaker 2: But even they've even just take two forty, you know what,
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Speaker 2: He's also a clutch guy. He is one of the
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Speaker 2: hitters that I think the Giants are really happy about.
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Speaker 2: If he's up with a runner on third and he's
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Speaker 2: very you, he will get you a sack fly he'll
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Speaker 2: hit the ball on the ground the other way. So
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Speaker 2: I like Patrick Bailey. I think he's underrated as an
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Speaker 2: overall player.
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Speaker 5: Susan big picture question for you.
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Speaker 1: I am old enough to remember when Dodger fans were
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Speaker 1: really jealous and envious of Giants fans. We have the
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Speaker 1: ultimate oneint eighty in place right now, but let's not
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Speaker 1: forget the dynasty the Giants had winning every other year.
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Speaker 1: Three titles this century really really successful, right that was
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Speaker 1: probably the most successful run of the century up until
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Speaker 1: this point. My simple question for you is what is
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Speaker 1: the perception of the Dodgers right now by Giants fans.
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Speaker 1: I'm just going off my little sample size of fans
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Speaker 1: that text me, Oh, it's not fair, blah blah blah,
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Speaker 1: and then I text them back Frank McCourt and then
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Speaker 1: they usually stop because I'm like, all you have to
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Speaker 1: do is go back a little bit to a time
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Speaker 1: when they were dominating, they were much more well run,
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Speaker 1: and we're in a shift at the moment.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, you know, it's funny I get I get the
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Speaker 2: same sort of responsor fans, and then Dodger fans always
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Speaker 2: hop on and go, y'all are obsessed with us, like
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Speaker 2: we're in your heads. It's just funny. You know, baseball
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Speaker 2: everything winds up being say lical and this Dodgers. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: you know, they look set for a very long time.
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Speaker 2: But Giant fans got a little bit spoiled there, and
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Speaker 2: I think there's some residue from that, and they expect
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Speaker 2: everything right now, and sometimes you do have to be
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Speaker 2: a little patient. But I'm a little bit with them,
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Speaker 2: because I do see that there's a core here that
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Speaker 2: could be very good and that could be a at
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Speaker 2: least a playoff regular, you know, with a little bit
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Speaker 2: more helps. So you know, I feel for the Giant Sands,
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Speaker 2: but at the point the same time, they've been awfully
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Speaker 2: spoiled for a pretty long time.
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Speaker 3: Susan, can we go to your Hall of Fame bout
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Speaker 3: because I love that you put it out there. So
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Speaker 3: many people don't put it out there, so good for
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Speaker 3: you for putting it out there, because the biggest question
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Speaker 3: will be from me your Manny Ramirez and Alex Rodriguez
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Speaker 3: inclusion on your ballot. Where what is that thought process
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Speaker 3: for you when you went okay, I'm going to fill
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Speaker 3: that in.
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Speaker 2: Well, I used to not vote for any of the
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Speaker 2: steroids guys or sort of when, especially when when Bonds
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Speaker 2: and Clements first hit. You know, I didn't vote for
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Speaker 2: them for the first few years, and then you see
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Speaker 2: guys who have been connected with possible pet's use go in.
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Speaker 2: And then for me it was when LaRussa cox Sea
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Speaker 2: leg there was one off season they all went in
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Speaker 2: and I thought, well, the architects of the steroid era
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Speaker 2: such as it was are all going in and these
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Speaker 2: are all people who, you know, kind of look the
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Speaker 2: other way. People knew what was going on, could have
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Speaker 2: maybe done more to institute drug testing earlier. And you know,
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Speaker 2: I could go through the whole list of you know,
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Speaker 2: well there's guys who are racists and you know, dolls
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Speaker 2: or wife beaters and all sorts of things. In the
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Speaker 2: Hall of Fame. It is, there are so many spots
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Speaker 2: on the ballot that actually say consider character, Consider character,
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Speaker 2: and I do think that's important. Absolutely, steroid use was
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Speaker 2: cheating one hundred percent. I don't think people disagree with that.
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Speaker 2: But there are plenty of steroid users who are in
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Speaker 2: there now. We're seeing more all the time. I feel
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Speaker 2: like it's unfair to hold it just to Bonds and
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Speaker 2: Clements and yes, Manny and a Rod failed actual tests,
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Speaker 2: but I've sort of just gone with.
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Speaker 5: This.
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Speaker 2: Hall needs to be represented by the best players of
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Speaker 2: the era, and I will tell you especially the I mean,
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Speaker 2: Annie Ramires is maybe the greatest right handed hitter I've
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Speaker 2: ever seen. A Rod obviously dominated the game for a while.
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Speaker 2: I mean, these are leaving these two guys out and
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Speaker 2: Bonds and Clemmens. This it's not a representative Hall of Fame.
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Speaker 2: It's just not for me. And I understand the flip side.
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Speaker 2: I get it. I have no problem with people who
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Speaker 2: feel opposite. But at this point, you know, Beltron looks
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Speaker 2: like he's going to go in, and he was there
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Speaker 2: for the little Astros things. So you know, cheating's cheating,
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Speaker 2: and we seem to be fine with some of it,
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Speaker 2: but not all of it.
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Speaker 4: Are you the morality police now, Susan? What changed about you?
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Speaker 4: I don't remember you being like this.
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Speaker 2: I'm the opposite.
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Speaker 5: I know, I'm just kidding. Listen, listen.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you didn't vote for me, and I didn't do steroids, Susan,
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Speaker 4: So I'm disappointed, but.
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Speaker 5: Fair, Yes, exactly.
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Speaker 4: But but I asked, I asked Ken the same question.
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Speaker 4: You know, Andy Pettitt admitted to doing pds. Everyone now
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Speaker 4: was voting for him. Manny and a Rod are not
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Speaker 4: on a lot of ballots. And for me as a
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Speaker 4: former player that played through US and I played with
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Speaker 4: Barry Bonds, I played against Manny, I played against Air.
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Speaker 4: I played against all these guys on this ballot, right,
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Speaker 4: some that are in the Hall of Fame that have
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Speaker 4: been rumored to have done things, and some that you know,
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Speaker 4: are rumored to do things that was never proven that
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Speaker 4: aren't in the Hall of Fame.
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Speaker 5: Okay, But for me, the line is two thousand and five.
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Speaker 4: If you did them and you got suspended, you knew
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Speaker 4: what you were doing, you were cheating, you're out. If
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Speaker 4: anything before that, I can't say what you did because
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Speaker 4: I don't know, Okay, I don't know what everyone did.
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Speaker 4: I don't know who did this or did that or whatever.
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Speaker 4: That's not my place to do this to anybody, not
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Speaker 4: judge anyone. But if you did it and you got caught,
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Speaker 4: you're out.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's that's certainly a fair take. I
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Speaker 2: don't think any of I don't think anybody's takes on
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Speaker 2: this is really unreasonable. I see it. I have just
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Speaker 2: decided at some point in general, we all seem okay
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Speaker 2: with some forms of cheating in the Hall of Fame.
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Speaker 2: These were great players regard I you know, even this
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Speaker 2: argument I don't love. I saw Tom Verducci shoot this
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Speaker 2: one down really well once, which was like, if so
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Speaker 2: and so was a Hall of Famer before they started
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Speaker 2: doing steroids, they should be in the Hall of Fame,
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Speaker 2: and he was. At that point, Peter was still playing
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Speaker 2: but forward the end of his career, and Verducci said, well,
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Speaker 2: does that make it okay for Jeter just start doing
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Speaker 2: steroids now? It doesn't like it's either okay or it's
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Speaker 2: not okay. I don't think it's really okay. But I
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Speaker 2: think the Hall needs to represent the eras. That's where
20:37
Speaker 2: I've come down.
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Speaker 5: Okay, so they should have a steroid era.
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Speaker 4: But are you okay with like Phil nicro who maybe
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Speaker 4: did put Gaylor Perry who, by the way, you're welcome
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Speaker 4: Gaylor for wearing your number last and getting it retired
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Speaker 4: in San Francisco? But are you okay with them because
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Speaker 4: they were accused of maybe putting some stuff on the
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Speaker 4: ball every once in a while to make it move funky?
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Speaker 5: Is that cheating? Right?
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Speaker 4: You mentioned Beltrom people, we'll call him a cheater because
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Speaker 4: of the trash can thing. At some point out two
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Speaker 4: Bay is probably going to go in the Hall of Fame.
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Speaker 4: He's going to be brought up as part of this.
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Speaker 4: So it's like, what do we do here? Because yeah,
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Speaker 4: I mean, it's a weird it's a weird thing. Hall
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Speaker 4: of Fame is Hall of Fame is a tough decision.
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Speaker 4: I wish I had a vote, and then I could
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Speaker 4: vote the way I wanted, and then I could everyone
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Speaker 4: could tell me how wrong I was.
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Speaker 5: So we're here to tell you how wrong you are
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Speaker 5: on certain things. Susan.
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Speaker 2: It's okay, that's totally fair that I mean, I really
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Speaker 2: this is one where I don't think that there there's
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Speaker 2: no easy answer. There just isn't. There are strong arguments
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Speaker 2: to be made everywhere, but this whole era is starting
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Speaker 2: to become very underrepresented in the Hall in general, and
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Speaker 2: two of the greatest players are not in and looked
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Speaker 2: like they might never be in with plaques. You know
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Speaker 2: there there is like you know there is. There's Barry
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Speaker 2: Bond's memorabilia in the Hall of Fame. There is Roger
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Speaker 2: Clemens memorabilia in the Hall of Fame. But these were
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Speaker 2: two of the greats. They should be in.
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Speaker 1: The whole process is tainted, but it's fun to talk about,
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Speaker 1: and we don't cover it a ton in general. But
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Speaker 1: this week, of course, is the time to do it.
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Speaker 1: Is we get the announcement coming up later today, Susan.
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Speaker 1: Awesome to catch up with you. We always appreciate it.
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Speaker 1: Tell Sugar Ray, we say hello, and the time is
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Speaker 1: now Sugar Ray is again.
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Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, absolutely I should have stuck them in a room.
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Speaker 2: I didn't realize