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  Speaker 1: Ay ay. So this show always starts with a little music.
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  Speaker 1: I have music news. I got a lot of news
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  Speaker 1: on who's performing. It just came in in the last
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  Speaker 1: like hour or two. For MLB one, we already knew,
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  Speaker 1: but you want to hear some.
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  Speaker 2: Names for what world?
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  Speaker 1: Like Game one and two.
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  Speaker 2: See, I don't know anything about it.
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  Speaker 1: I'll give it to you ready, their names, you know?
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  Speaker 1: Game one anthem got a Canadian No, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if these people are Canadian or not. To be honest,
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  Speaker 1: maybe somebody can look that up on the fly as
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  Speaker 1: we talk about it. Game one Pharrell, he's been all
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  Speaker 1: over all the postseason and stuff, so you know, doing
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  Speaker 1: the ads. You've seen him on. So he's part of
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  Speaker 1: some deal that they have with them. So that's solid.
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  Speaker 1: It's a good start, right. We like Forrell.
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  Speaker 2: Oh caned Parrell's and Americans are just look what else?
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  Speaker 1: Game two bb Rexa for the American anthem. I'm a fan.
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  Speaker 2: She's good.
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  Speaker 1: And then Alessia Kara for the Canadian anthem. She's also excellent.
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  Speaker 1: What about Alessia is Alessia Canadian? I'm curious because she's
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  Speaker 1: doing the Canadian anthem. She is really good, very talented,
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  Speaker 1: you would know your songs. I'm not going to attempt
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  Speaker 1: good Patriot boom, there you go. And lastly, I think
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  Speaker 1: it's mid game. Maybe they're doing a song. It's part
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  Speaker 1: of the stand up to cancer that MLB does a
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  Speaker 1: really nice job with. Jonas Brothers.
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  Speaker 2: Nice. Well, I know one of them. I think they're
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  Speaker 2: Jersey if.
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  Speaker 1: Oh they're so Jersey Jonas Bros. Yeah, yeah, very very.
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  Speaker 2: Have to look that one up. I know.
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  Speaker 1: I think one of them still lives in North Jersey. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I know the one you're talking about. Yeah, I know
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  Speaker 1: him as well. Yes, there you go.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty cool. No, no, no, Pennsylvania guys singer.
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  Speaker 1: No, the Phillies didn't make it to the World Series unfortunately.
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  Speaker 3: You know what's fun about the Anthem? That's the one
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  Speaker 3: song they always played before I didn't play good.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't that something? Why would they always keep playing that.
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  Speaker 1: Song now again and again. You'd have a bad day
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  Speaker 1: and be like, can we skip it just for superstitious purposes?
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  Speaker 1: And they were like no, no, no no.
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  Speaker 3: When they're playing the Anthem, I'm like, I might have
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  Speaker 3: a good game, but every time they played the Anthem
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  Speaker 3: didn't have a good game.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I remember that one time in Puerto Rico it
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  Speaker 4: was raining, so they went and didn't play it, and
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  Speaker 4: you started felt like Tony Gwynn, didn't you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you just get scared, you know when you hear
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  Speaker 1: your country's anthem. All right, anyway, it's Friday, as you
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  Speaker 1: can tell, but we're super excited. It's World Series Game
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  Speaker 1: one day. The World Series begins this evening, and we
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  Speaker 1: are going to have a post game show. We'll give
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  Speaker 1: you a little more info. It's very simple though. If
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  Speaker 1: you are watching the game, or even if you're not,
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  Speaker 1: you tune in to YouTube very soon after the game,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes on a minute after. Sometimes it's a close game,
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  Speaker 1: we wait a few minutes. You watch the postgame interview
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  Speaker 1: on the field with Kenny Ballgame, Rosen Dollar, Tome Berducci,
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  Speaker 1: and then we're on live discussing what happens after game one.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see you for it, and in case you
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  Speaker 1: fall asleep or something, we're still there for you on
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  Speaker 1: demand on YouTube with that postgame show. Let us charge.
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  Speaker 1: I like this quote to start us off, Blake Snell
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  Speaker 1: Game one starter. Hey, Blake, what's your approach against Laddie
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  Speaker 1: Junior and George Springer?
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  Speaker 2: His quote.
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  Speaker 1: I can tell you in like a week.
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  Speaker 2: It's a great quote. It is.
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  Speaker 4: He's no idea, or if I was him, I would
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  Speaker 4: have said the exact opposite, would you know? Yeah, fastball
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  Speaker 4: is right down the plate. They can't hit a fastball
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  Speaker 4: center cut. I've seen it for years now. I've seen
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  Speaker 4: it for so many years, those two guys especially.
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  Speaker 2: It's the weirdest thing.
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  Speaker 4: Just forcing fastballs on ninety four ninety six right down
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  Speaker 4: the plate.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I'm gonna do, and keep a straight.
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  Speaker 3: Faith bold move Cotton. See how it works out for you.
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  Speaker 3: I love it. I love it.
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  Speaker 5: Why not?
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  Speaker 3: We got guys at second base like flapping their wings
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  Speaker 3: and making circles. Why can't pictures, Why can't pictures come back?
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  Speaker 3: But I'll tell you what they are gonna do to George.
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  Speaker 3: You're gonna see that slider that has been absolutely filthy
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  Speaker 3: for Blake, and you're gonna see change ups and everything
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  Speaker 3: else is gonna be out of his zone because George
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  Speaker 3: hits lefty curveballs like nobody's business. So and obviously he's
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  Speaker 3: gonna be a hit a heater. But Blake knows what
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  Speaker 3: he's gonna do. He's and if he forgets. He's got
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  Speaker 3: it in his pocket and.
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  Speaker 2: He's gonna look at it, oh yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: In between pitches and then he'll hit the button on
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  Speaker 3: his hip and then he'll go and throw it.
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  Speaker 4: He's been nasty, yeah, And I think to your point
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  Speaker 4: kind of to like finish it off, I don't think
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  Speaker 4: he needs to change just because who's up to the plate. Honestly,
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  Speaker 4: this guy, whatever he's been doing, whatever signs they've been
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  Speaker 4: putting down, they've been synchronized, they've been in sync.
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  Speaker 2: And just because whoever's up, all of.
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  Speaker 4: A sudden, you want to change your approach to what
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  Speaker 4: you've been throwing and how nasty you are. Okay, if
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  Speaker 4: they get one or two out, then maybe change it up.
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  Speaker 4: But the way he's been pitching, you know, whatever sequence
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  Speaker 4: he wants to throw us to, righties, don't even worry
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  Speaker 4: about the name. Worry about what you can control, and
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  Speaker 4: that's throwing your best pitch at that particular time. And
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  Speaker 4: he has been doing it this whole playoff.
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  Speaker 1: Mm hmm. Let's talk rosters to go ahead, crats, and
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  Speaker 1: then I'll say.
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  Speaker 3: You definitely just got it. Basically, Blake's just gonna look
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  Speaker 3: at it and go dude, this is this is a
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  Speaker 3: hot there's a hot zone. I'm gonna stay out of
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  Speaker 3: that hot zone unless it's like that is my Like
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  Speaker 3: if somebody's hammering change ups and he's like, that's my
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  Speaker 3: best pitch, I don't really care. But there's glaring there's
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  Speaker 3: glaring areas that Blake Snell can go to. But you're
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  Speaker 3: exactly right, Todd. Do you want to stay with your strengths.
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  Speaker 1: Also, the Dodgers are down one of their shirt goal
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  Speaker 1: of trust relievers. It's a tough story. We don't have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of information, but Alex Vessia is not currently
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  Speaker 1: on the roster. There were reports yesterday that maybe he
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  Speaker 1: would be put on the family medical emergency or a
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  Speaker 1: breaevement list something like that. So the Dodgers shared that
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  Speaker 1: he's away from the team and he and his wife
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  Speaker 1: Kayla are navigating a deeply personal family matter. So first off,
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  Speaker 1: most importantly, hope you know everything's okay and thinking about them,
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  Speaker 1: there's more than just baseball on the field. We do
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  Speaker 1: cover the sport. Though Alex Vessier is one of their
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  Speaker 1: best relievers. Maybe he pops up later in the series
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  Speaker 1: if they figure that out. But we know for sure,
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  Speaker 1: he's not pitching in Game one, that is one of
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  Speaker 1: their better relievers.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely.
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  Speaker 4: And forget about sports, anything that deals with family, with
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  Speaker 4: deals with friends, anything that you hear with a heavy heart,
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  Speaker 4: that kind of takes it toll a little bit understanding that.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, this takes precedents of everything.
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  Speaker 4: Forget about a World series ring family over everything, and
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  Speaker 4: we hope everything's okay. We will say prayers and all
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  Speaker 4: that stuff, well wishes, and again we don't know the
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  Speaker 4: full story. But again, baseball does not come first when
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  Speaker 4: it comes to family.
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  Speaker 1: Let's take you through the Arena Club slab pack experience.
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  Speaker 1: This is part two because todd father last week pulled
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  Speaker 1: a card that he didn't love, yet he sold it
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  Speaker 1: back for actually more than what the slab pack cost.
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  Speaker 1: This time pulls a card that he likes.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and this is the best part of it. Ronnie Mauricio,
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  Speaker 4: the Mets stand out. You know, rookie sensation. He's been
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  Speaker 4: absolutely phenomenal. I like the itch of seeing what you're
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  Speaker 4: gonna get, you know, I like prospects. I don't love him,
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  Speaker 4: but seeing this kind of card is actually absolutely beautiful thing.
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  Speaker 4: I know a couple people around town that would absolutely
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  Speaker 4: love that card. So there's gonna be a lot of
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  Speaker 4: conversations going on here for Arena Club.
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  Speaker 1: And what you do is you have it in your
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  Speaker 1: digital showroom. If you want to hand it out locally,
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  Speaker 1: then cool. You ask Arena Club to send it to
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  Speaker 1: you and they do, or you can sell it back
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  Speaker 1: like you see their instant offer for one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: ninety three bucks. But he's keeping it. And you can
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  Speaker 1: first card purchase or your first slab pack purchase.
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  Speaker 2: So krats.
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  Speaker 1: As far as strategy concerns, Let's say Blake Snell isn't
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  Speaker 1: superhuman and gives you more of a five ish because
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  Speaker 1: the pitch count rides up or whatever. Right, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's more common. I mean Blake's been stupid good. But
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  Speaker 1: if that's the case, I mean, this definitely hurts for
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers. This is the one week spot where the
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  Speaker 1: Blue Jays could pounce.
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  Speaker 3: I mean they have two like real relievers that have
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  Speaker 3: pitched only as relievers in Vessia and Trina, and that
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  Speaker 3: I think Dave Roberts really really trusts. I wouldn't be
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  Speaker 3: surprised if you give, you know, you give like a
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  Speaker 3: short leash to a Clayton Kershall if there is, you know,
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  Speaker 3: if there's a little bit of a hiccup for Blake
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  Speaker 3: Snow and you wouldn't expect that based on how he's
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  Speaker 3: been pitching. But so the World Series is, there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot going on. The Blue Jays are a good team,
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  Speaker 3: that's why they're there, and losing Vessia is it's a
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  Speaker 3: big it's a big loss. But I'm glad. I'm glad
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  Speaker 3: the organization and him are able to say, you know what,
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna step away and take care of this.
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  Speaker 1: So Vessia is off for now. Ben Casparius is not on.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we haven't seen him much. He was a
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  Speaker 1: big deal last year, but we haven't seen him. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if you pitched at all. I know he's
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  Speaker 1: on the roster, but I don't remember if you pitched
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  Speaker 1: at all. I don't think so in the postseason. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: in the wildcard rounds, I don't remember, but I don't
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  Speaker 1: think so.
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  Speaker 3: Actually, I feel like I saw him warming up one time,
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  Speaker 3: but it wouldn't have been in the wild It might
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  Speaker 3: have been in a wildcard round. Now I feel like
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  Speaker 3: it was in Milwaukee. Was he active in Milwaukee?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he was active, I think, okay.
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  Speaker 3: Thinking about seeing him in the bullpen in Milwaukee's but
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  Speaker 3: it's jogging my memory. But I don't think he got
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  Speaker 3: in a game.
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  Speaker 1: No Tanner Scott, which is still crazy when you think
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  Speaker 1: about how the world really erupted the jealous world when
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  Speaker 1: they were like, oh, they get Tanner Scott and Kirby
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  Speaker 1: Yates and they are completely uninvolved in the postseason. So
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  Speaker 1: that continues. But the right handers activated or Will Klein
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  Speaker 1: and Edgardo Henriquez who has good stuff but did not
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  Speaker 1: have it in that wild card game. Remember again Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 1: He was one of the guys where you're like.
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  Speaker 2: Uh uh and he just couldn't find it. Yep.
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  Speaker 3: Part of that like sixty whatever, sixty three pitch inning that.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, honestly, they had a big lead, but you
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  Speaker 3: saw like, oh boy, Dave Robinson was like, all right,
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  Speaker 3: we got to go to somebody else. So hey, you
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  Speaker 3: might get another shot. I doubt it in a close game, but.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's not like the Dodgers don't have options
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  Speaker 1: and Emma che can go multiple innings. We'll see how
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  Speaker 1: Blake Trining looks. But he's in the circle of trust
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  Speaker 1: Roki Sasaki of course, and hey, Rokie is capable of
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  Speaker 1: going multiple innings. Yeah, keep that in mind. Too tight game,
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  Speaker 1: they could bring him in the eighth. I mean, he
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  Speaker 1: went three innings in that extra inning affair against the Phillies,
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  Speaker 1: So keep that in mind. And by the way, Casparius
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  Speaker 1: Kratz did not pitch so far in this postseason, but
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  Speaker 1: last year in the postseason six and the third one run,
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  Speaker 1: and he was a big deal last year. That was
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  Speaker 1: just coming out part. Let's talk and he wasn't on
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  Speaker 1: the NLTS roster, but he was added back to the
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  Speaker 1: NLCS roster. Now let's talk. Blue Jays. Boba Schett he's on.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe during this show we'll find out lineups, so we'll
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  Speaker 1: share that. Also, ty France is on the roster. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: ty France, he's in there.
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  Speaker 4: Baby. You were just sitting in spring training or wherever
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  Speaker 4: you are getting some reps. Oh, I'm playing let's.
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  Speaker 2: Go World Series. This is so cool, so cool. Your
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  Speaker 2: name on the list, so pretty unique.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, two guys that had been hurt, right bo battling
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  Speaker 1: the knee issue and they gave him good enough to
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  Speaker 1: go right. And then for ty France, he has not
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  Speaker 1: appeared at all in this postseason. This is the first
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  Speaker 1: time that he's popping up for the team as well.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember. I think it was oblique for him,
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  Speaker 1: but I'll double check that in a moment. So ty
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  Speaker 1: France can give you a good at bat, and he's
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  Speaker 1: actually a really good first base and obviously flat he's
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  Speaker 1: playing first, but that has been a really good defender
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  Speaker 1: as well, not going to be needed in that capacity.
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  Speaker 3: Does he get in there tonight? I mean you're, you're
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  Speaker 3: really you're because he started against he's played against Blake Snell,
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  Speaker 3: and you'd think like, okay, well they're not going to
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  Speaker 3: start him in games two, three, four, because and then
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  Speaker 3: you also have like it feels like they're it feels
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  Speaker 3: like they're in is a little not thin, but a
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  Speaker 3: little like you know, they're kind of handicapping their bench
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  Speaker 3: with all their right handed bats. And then like ty
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  Speaker 3: France doesn't have a lot of versatility. Bo obviously we're
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  Speaker 3: gonna see if he has versatility, But then you're moving
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  Speaker 3: your DH if if he's if Bow's dhing which is
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  Speaker 3: a possibility. Then you could go George in right field,
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  Speaker 3: and then you got Barger third base. But Barger probably
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't start against Blake Snell. So I feel like I'm
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  Speaker 3: interested to see how how it's utilized. Obviously Blue Jays
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  Speaker 3: would love it if they just go nine guys, throw
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  Speaker 3: them out there. How you doing?
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  Speaker 2: How you're doing? I love it?
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  Speaker 1: But Ty France isn't going to start. Where would he play?
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  Speaker 3: That's what I mean, kind of kind of ham hamstrings
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  Speaker 3: your bench. Yeah, like you'd think they'd want a little
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  Speaker 3: bit more versatility than what they have, But I don't
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  Speaker 3: know what their other option would have been besides Ty France.
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  Speaker 3: So that's that's where I'm kind of misinformed.
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  Speaker 1: Well, he takes over for Joey Loperfido low Berffedo replaced
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  Speaker 1: santunder low per Vedo's off, and France is on. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you have Isaiah Connor Philippa who can play.
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  Speaker 1: Even if we made up positions in baseball, he can
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  Speaker 1: play them. He's just very versatile. So you've got that,
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  Speaker 1: and you presume he's going to be more of a
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  Speaker 1: bench guy for them, now, right, Krats, Well, depends on
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  Speaker 1: how the infield plays out.
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  Speaker 4: Which would you rather have a Bulboush at the agent
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  Speaker 4: even at where he is now, or having like an
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  Speaker 4: Isaiah Khanna Filifa or whomever out there playing.
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  Speaker 1: For me, I would like ikf on the bench as
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  Speaker 1: my super utility guy that can fill in any spot
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  Speaker 1: if needed, and you can do defensive replacements later in
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  Speaker 1: the game. But for me, they said George Springer's k
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  Speaker 1: playing in the outfield. We have to go with what
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  Speaker 1: they're saying, right, So if he's playing capable of playing
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  Speaker 1: in the outfield, then great, I'll either take that or
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  Speaker 1: if bo is capable of playing one of those two
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  Speaker 1: middle infield positions. It does make you a better offensive
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  Speaker 1: ball club if you can do one of those things.
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  Speaker 4: I think you put your best offensive ball club out there,
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  Speaker 4: have to and you take your chances. And if you
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  Speaker 4: look back and they end up losing, so be it.
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  Speaker 4: At the end of the day, you know you have
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  Speaker 4: an opportunity to put one of the most you know,
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  Speaker 4: one of the better and most prolific players in Boba
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  Speaker 4: Schett out there, and you're gonna leave him on the
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  Speaker 4: bench and all of a sudden you lose. Anyway, just
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  Speaker 4: saying just per se we don't know what's going to happen. Well,
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  Speaker 4: what if I put both Bachet out there, maybe I
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  Speaker 4: should have taken my chances. So the risk you take
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  Speaker 4: by putting them out there, I think it's the risk
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  Speaker 4: you need to take. Knowing his capability.
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  Speaker 1: Krats. If Bobaschett can play wherever good enough and pass
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  Speaker 1: to their tests, what is the ideal lineup for the
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  Speaker 1: Blue Jays? And we can go with tonight. I know
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  Speaker 1: it's a lefty tonight.
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  Speaker 3: I mean I'll have to go do that nine. But
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  Speaker 3: position wise, position wise, I don't watching him run, watching
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  Speaker 3: the videos of Bo run, I don't know that he
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  Speaker 3: can play shortstop for me, especially when you have a
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  Speaker 3: goal Glover who can play short stop at a goal
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  Speaker 3: glove level and Andre Samenez. So maybe you'd have him
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  Speaker 3: at second base. But for me, lineup wise, I'm sitting
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  Speaker 3: there going I gotta have the best combination of George
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  Speaker 3: Vladdie and and Bo. Like if Bo's ready to go,
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  Speaker 3: I don't care that I have three writings in a row.
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  Speaker 3: I'm coming out with the best, my best guns. Blaze
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  Speaker 3: and Bo is in there to drive guys in. And
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  Speaker 3: you have two guys that get on base at a
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: monstrous clip in Vlad and George. So to me, that's
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: where that's where I that's where I set it. That's
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: where I set my lineup, and it's the first three
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: boys at the top.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: We're back. There's a lot of chatter about what we
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: were just talking about. Mikey, for example, in the chat
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: Bashett first time ever playing second base in the World
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: Series would be crazy. Yeah, uh oh, the Jay's left
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: off Uriel Rodriguez. I guess we didn't get that part
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: in there. Uriel Rodriguez is off the roster. Yariel Rodriguez,
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: he pitched maybe once or twice.
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, seemed to be like the.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: Last man in the bullpen for them, so they said,
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: now we're good.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: Well, he was getting significant innings during the year two
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: for him, and towards the end it started started kind
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: of flattening out a little bit. That Slider wasn't didn't
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: have as much death.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and they're they're really focused, probably wishing they had
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: even one more lefty to try and neutralize the Dodgers.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: But man, Mason Fleuard, he's going to be tasked with
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: a big job.
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: Right on to me, I think they may even walk
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: walk show hey more and try to try to get
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: that lefty that uh, that little pocket there with Freddy
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: and Max. I'll be interested to see where Doc, how
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: close Doc puts Max to Freddy there. Because you can't
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: get all three, you have to be old, you have
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: to be willing to say, Okay, you know what, We're
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: just gonna get this guaranteed out. We're gonna push this guy,
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: you know, the first base, that kind of thing like
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: you can't you can't say I'll stay in there and
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: get six batters. Can't do it.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Hey, We've got John Smoltz joining us right now. Of
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: course you'll hear him tonight with Joe Davis on the broadcast,
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: along with Ken Rosentdald Tom Berducci on Fox and on
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: the brand new Fox one app. John, great to see you.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: We're excited for this one and we'll dive right in.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: I know you're in game mode, so I don't know
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: if you heard anything from our last combo, but how
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: do you draw up Toronto's lineup situation heading into this
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: game one? I know it's also a lefty, but now
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: we've got Bobachett back in the mix.
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: What do you think, well, the number one thing I
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: would do is try to be find a way to
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: not get many left handed batters in that lineup. I
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: know their left handers have been really good, but against
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: Blake Snell, you're giving a runway. He is nasty, and
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: I would find a way. Maybe again, I'll be interested
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: to see what they do with Ba Shet. I mean,
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: the easiest thing to do with dhs, but that puts
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: Springer in the outfield, and then you can put Schneider
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: in the outfield and maybe even maybe even Straw. But
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: I think the biggest thing that I'm looking forward to
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: seeing how the lineup and how many right handers are
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: in that lineup, because it's the only game he has
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: to worry about that many right handers. Is Blake Snell's
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: the only left handed starter?
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: What have you seen from Blake Snell? What do you
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: because we were talking about it earlier, like, hey, you
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: know what, just throw your game. But then I look
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: at some of the numbers, like I look at George
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: Springer on curveballs, and you're like, okay, well I can't
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: land any of those. Like what do you see from
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: Blake Snell? Do you think even any of these scatter
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: reports matter for him because of how he's throwing right now.
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: No, his release points very consistent. When Blake Snell was
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: not great, he was throwing too many pitches, and yeah,
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: now the statistics look great in five innings, you know,
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: twelve punch outs, five walks. When he's come in in
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: his fastball and throws the change up off of it,
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: it's deadly. And then he's got a wicked curveball top
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: to bottom. It's all about command and release point. He's
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: in that place right now that you dream of being
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: as a starting pitcher. I don't know how much this
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: layoff is going to hurt him as far as timing
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: and rhythm, but I think that's the thing to watch.
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: You got the best starting pitchers going against the team
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: that controls the strike zone better than anybody I've seen
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: in a long time in the Toronto Blue Jays. So
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: they're gonna be up there hacking, but they're only going
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: to hack in the strike zone for the most part
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: and see if they can work his pitch count get
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: him out of rhythm a little bit. But right now,
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: no one's been able to do that. He went through
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: the Milwaukee Brewers like they were nothing, And now the
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: difference is the Toronto Blue Jays are the Milwaukee Brewers
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: with power, and that's the biggest different And it's hard
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: to believe they've led this all a postseason and home runs,
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: you wouldn't think that'd be the case, but they played
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: a lot more games, I get it. So that's really
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: to me. I can't wait to watch just that cat
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: and mouse game of attacked to strike zone against the
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: hitters that do a good job attacking the strike zone.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Smallta. I want to bring in, you know, some of
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: our fan comments on this, so so two things to
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: tie into what you're talking about right now. One they said,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: does it even matter for right handers with the way
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: that Snell's new changeup is working? And two, I thought
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: this theory was interesting even though it severely depletes the defense.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: They were like, what if Hi, Francis, DH, Tonight, Bo
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: and Springer in the field, and then you can mess
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: around later in the game. But what if you roll
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: out a lineup like that to try and do the
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: best you can against the south pond in this situation?
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: I mean, that's again a wrinkle that's going to make
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: him think about you know, if one of those pitches
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: aren't on the right handers have an advantage, and it's
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: just too big. It's just too easy of a laying
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: against left handed batters. I mean, he's so nasty with
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: that breaking ball. You have to be an elite left
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: handed hitter to be able to have that chance. And
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: right now, even though him and as it came up
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: hugege in the series with his bat, he's not had
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: much of the bat this year and more defense. So
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: it really depends on what John Schneyder wants to do.
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: I think defensively, he doesn't have to worry as much
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: against the pitcher he's got out there. He's more of
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: a strikeout pitcher. And you Savage, so I'm intrigued. I
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: think I would stack as many left hand right handers
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: as I possibly could against Blake Snell and then deal
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: with the rest because really the left handed relievers for
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: the Dodgers are not exactly rolling out there in the
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: in the right place either, So it's going to be
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: an interesting matchup.
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: Talking about you Savage, this young cat coming in and
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: doing really well. Talk about what you're looking from him?
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: How does he get these hitters out? And if he
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: can get the five or six innings out to be
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: a plus in my opinion, right.
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: John, Absolutely. I think it all comes down to he
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: can't live upstairs with the fastball against the Dodgers. There's
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: too many good high fastball hitters on their team. But
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: if he throws enough strikes and that split finger and
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: that release point, they haven't seen anything like this. He
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: went through the two teams. He had one little mistake
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: against the Seattle Mariners in the first inning. But I'm
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: telling you, this guy he might be made for this
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: moment only five starts coming into it, and I think
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: his ability to throw that split at that seven foot
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: one release point is unlike most hitters release points. They
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: just don't see that from a pitcher. And so he'll
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: throw enough strikes with fastballs, he'll be in the game
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: for five innings. If he doesn't, the Dodgers have a
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: way of making you come to them, and then that's
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: when they're at their best. So that split the slider
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: is actually way better than people think. It's just not
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: a pitch he's going to have to rely on too
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: often because if he's got the split going, that's what
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: he's going to do with.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and we've seen a lot of those splitters work.
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: I mean, Gosman circle, whatever you call that splitter absolutely felthy.
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: So they've learned from each other. I want to ask you,
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: it's like two part question. It's pretty much the same
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: for the Dodgers to win this World Series. What is
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: one key thing that they're going to have to pinpoint
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: on or is it just the same? Keep doing what
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: you're doing if you're the Dodgers, don't change a thing.
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think the first time I've seen Dave Roberts
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: sitting on the dugouts bench for a long time, Wathington
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: starters go seven, eight, nine innings. That's not been the
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: Dodgers of the past. So if that stays the same
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: and you don't expose the bullpen, which has been a
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: little bit of an issue going after the end of
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: the regular season, I think it comes down to the
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: offense not striking out too much. If they don't strike
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: out that much, their offense is good enough to put
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: up the numbers required to win. The only thing every
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: once in a while the Dodgers run into is if
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: you strike them out, you've eliminated their ability to beat
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: you with slug and that really came into play a
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: little bit for Otani until he hit those three home runs.
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: So it's a battle of the best starting pitching we've
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: seen in a long time against a really, really good offense.
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: And then the starting pitching for Toronto has been average
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: to good, but it's not gonna have the the the
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: depth that the Dodgers currently have, and going against their lineup,
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: the Toronto Blue Jays bullpen better be great, and if
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: they're great, they got a chance to win the World Series.
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: And talking about bullpen, the middle relief, how does Toronto
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: they get to that middle relief early. I know they
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: don't swing a many pitches outside his own and they're
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: trying to get that pitch count up, But I believe,
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: in my opinion, for them to have a chance, they
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: have to find a way to get to that middle
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: relief to put a little more pressure on these guys.
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: Yeah, they have to they basically if they win the
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: World Series, I can make an argument they went through
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: some of the best pitching I've ever seen that didn't
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: look great. They made the Yankees look like they weren't
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: even that good. They made the Seattle Mariners starting pitcher
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: look like they weren't even one of the best stats
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: in the American League. And if they do that to
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: the Los Ange Dodgers, that means they've knocked them out early,
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: they've gotten into their bro pen, and they've caused havoc.
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: That is the way that they're gonna win the World Series.
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: They cannot, in my opinion, effectively beat the Dodgers if
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: those starters are going seven innings, every one of them
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: are eight. And I think that's gonna be the blueprint
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: to try to figure out. Even though they're aggressive and
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: they see less pitches per at bat than anybody, they
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: have a way of making sure the pitcher, if he's
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: not on his game and in the strike zone, then
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: they're gonna they're gonna pile up some pitches. They're not
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: three swingers. That's the beauty of it. They don't just
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: swing to swing. They swing in the strike zone and
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: really command it.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: Well.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: All right, Well, if you were to give advice to
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: the Dodgers team, but also Blake Snell or even you know,
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: any pitcher that's thrown what's it like throwing in the SkyDome.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: Obviously it's Roger Center, but when you threw in it,
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: it was a SkyDome. You have some experience, what do
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: you give them? And as far as advice for the
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: crowd and the different kind of noise that there's gonna
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: be tonight.
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: Well it's going to be the loudest crowd they faced
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: all year. I know Philadelphia is extreme and it's an
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: outdoor stadium, and you might give them the not an
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: outdoor stadium, but in a boat in a dome. I've
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: never heard of crowd this loud out of my life.
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: They're hungry, obviously, since nineteen ninety three, they haven't had
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: this come their way. And I think the biggest thing
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: is the Dodgers since last year being down two zero
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: against the San Diego Padres, they're a different bunch. They
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: rallied together, they've done things players only. They're a humble,
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: confident team and they're probably as calm as they've ever been.
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: So I don't think that noise is going to bother them.
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: What they've been through. You got to remember a year
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: change ago they were going to be eliminated and the
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: narrative was going to be different. And since then, whether
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: it's flying on their own, dinners on their own, players
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: have separated themselves from the noise literally and they have flourished,
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: and they have been through pretty much everything you could
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: go through. So that's why they're the favorites. That's why
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: they're confident. And I'm not so sure the noise is
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: even going to bother them, but it's sure is going
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: to be loud.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: This might be a dumb question, if you did you
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: ever throw a Game one in the World Series? I
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: should have researched this before. Okay, what's more pressure? Game
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: one to set a tone or Game two or like
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: following a loss to then reset the guys back.
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: I think the biggest game always is Game one, to
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: pass the baton onto your teammate. Unfortunately, the game one
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: I won in ninety six, we won Game two and
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: then we didn't win another game. That's what the Toronto
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: Blue Jays did. They were the last team to do that,
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: lose their first two games at home and then come
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: back and win a series, although be it in seven.
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: And I think the other interesting thing which is crazy
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: to stats or stats, any team that has swept coming
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: into a World Series, team that has won their previous
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: series in seven games, the team that has swept has
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: lost every World Series appearance, which is crazy. That talks
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: about the layoff, and that also talks about the team
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: coming in that that had won a seven game series.
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: So take that for whatever that is. But that's out there.
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: And I think winning game one is always important and
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: I think it sets the tone, but in this case
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: it's probably more important than ever for the Toronto Blue Jays.
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: They know they got to win at least one game
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: at home, and game one would be an unbelievable lift
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: for this town and that team.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Hey, smolty, with John Schneider kind of learning as he
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: goes deeper into the postseason, do you think he'll do
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: anything funky bullpen wise in the World Series. I mean,
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: for example, I keep bringing this up, Okay, Kevin Gosten's
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: pitching Game two. Could we see gossmin on his throat
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: day appear later in this series?
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: He appeared in Game seven for them. It seems like
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: Chris Bassett had a nice inning for them. Maybe you
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: see more of him. I would imagine that there's a key,
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: And I know you're always big on this to limit
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: looks right, You don't want to see Louis Barland in
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: the same spot every damn game against the same guys
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: or eventually you're gonna get.
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree. I think Barlin is his most trusted
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: right hand or in trouble. But I believe that what
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: John Schneider and every manager that they go through, they
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: learn that trusting your players doesn't always work out because
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: the execution doesn't work out, but you have to have trust.
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: I don't think he can go away from little the
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: left hander, even though that environment really got him in
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: the eighth inning. Maybe that's not the scenario to put
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: him in. But he's big, very big on trusting his
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: players and the roles that they're in. He trust trusts
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: his picture that if he brings in a starter to
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: your point, he's going to trust him. And I think
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: that's great. But I think the biggest thing that you'll
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: learn about players and pitchers when they're in a moment
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: that's too big their eyes or whatever their body, you
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: start seeing things that you might have to throw caution
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: to the win. And I think for Barlin, he thinks
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: and he's unbelievable. Eve though he's giving up some home runs,
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: he's faced some really really daunting tasks. If you think
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: about all the times he's been used, he believes that
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: every day that he puts him in that fastball and
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: slider is gonna play. So it's a great question, and
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: what he's learned over the last seven games, he hasn't
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: had to answer in a negative way because they've moved on,
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: but he knows he's always a moment away from being
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: asked a question. When your starters don't go deep, which
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: they're not going to go deep for Toronto at least
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: we haven't seen it. You're gonna have to rely on
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: that bullpen, and that bullpen is going to have its
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: hands full big time now with the Los Angeles Dodgers
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: and the ability for them to sluck.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: John, can you confirm that this is the last World
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: Series you'll do for a few years because you're going
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: to put your name in the hat for the brave job.
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: No, No, I barely get to go to the Braves
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: game and be in that. I think we're so far
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: removed from that organization. I don't even know if they
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: know that we're in the Hall of Fame. So now
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: that's going to be somebody else that follows a different
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: criteria of they're going to manage that baseball team moving forward.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: What do you think? What do you think? What do
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: you think they need. What do you see them them
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: needing to put in that position based on what they
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: already have on that roster.
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: Personally, I think they need somebody that can convey to
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: some of their star players what that star player needs
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: roll to be to be successful. I think they need
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: to handle the inside of that clubhouse better than the
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: numbers that everybody seems to be focused on in the analytics.
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: And they got to get guys pulling in the right
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: direction so that there guys that they signed are there
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: for a long time. And yes, health is the number
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: one reason they'll be successful this year. If they stay healthy,
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: they're going to be successful. But you still have to
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: be able to pull in the same direction and guys
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: do the things you got to do to win baseball games.
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: You can't just rely on awestruck talent that looks great
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: on paper and looks good on the back of a
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: baseball card.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's got to happen from the jump. Obviously,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: it was a slow start. I get that they had
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: the rough road trip at well, but they never recovered
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: after a week of baseball. It's just crazy. Until the
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: end of the season they got in a roll. But anyway,
• 33:06
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  Speaker 1: Let's sizzle Baby. We got the umpires announced for the
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: World Series and we're going to show you. Thanks to
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Umpire Auditor their season rankings out of ninety two umpires.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: Will Little ranks thirtieth, Adrian Johnson in Game two ranks
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: seventy fifth, Mark Wegner in Game three ranks thirty eighth.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: John Tom Payne ranks thirty first. He's doing Game four.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: Clap it up for Alan Porter, who was epic in
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: that game. Five of the Alds going to billion innings
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: and he's ranked third. Adam Hamari's ranked fifteenth out of
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: ninety two, and Jordan Baker is last. He's ranked sixty
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: fourth out of ninety two. Isn't Baker the dude that's
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: a monster, the tallest it's like six billion. Yeah, he's good, dude, right,
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: very good, but he's very tall.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: I'm surprising.
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: Sixty four that's a little it's a little low for
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: I mean, I review said, I think it's it's too high.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: I would say for him, I want him lower. So
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: pick it up, Jordan, let's go. Man. Nah, that's my guy.
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: Good dude.
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: But yeah, I don't know how they pick him.
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: I thought you would go by top seven, but what
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: are you going to do now? Top seven gosh, why
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: I would have one guy in the top ten.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like a broken record crats because
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: we do this all the time, and we do this
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: for every round, and I feel like the league gets
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: pissed that we talk about this. But this is why
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: we're an independent show. I don't We don't have to
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: answer to everyone. And really, if someone told us all
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: about the system and provided more transparency, I think it
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: would be a really big deal for a fan base,
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: for all of Major League Baseball fans to understand, Hey,
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: I just want to know, like what went into this,
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: What happened to the number one guy? What happened to
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: the number seven guy?
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Like what he wasn't nice? Like what did he do wrong?
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: I don't know. That's very curious.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he doesn't have enough sin already. Okay, neither does
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: tray Is Savage and he's starting Game one.
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Like, to me, the equivalent of this is saying, Okay,
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: I know, I know what just I know, the Mariners lost,
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: but man cal Raley had a great year, so he's
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: he's gonna get to play in the World Series two.
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: Like That's That's what it kind of feels like with
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: the umpires, sometimes these guys want this. These guys definitely
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: want to be in the World Series one. They get
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: a you know, it's prestigious. It's like, hey, you know
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: what I did this, I did the twenty twenty five
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: World Series. I did you know? My first ever championship
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: series was twenty two. They talk about that stuff and
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: they get bonuses for this. So why can't we tie
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: it to success and failures in the season. And it
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: doesn't have to be one through seven. It just has
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: to be more transparent. Like you said, just tell us
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: how you picked it. And to me, when you don't
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: tell us how you picked these guys, it just means
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: it's random. It just means they pick guys that have
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: some seniority. The thing that I think is cool about
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: this whole group, I was in the minor leagues with
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: every one of these guys before they were full time
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: big leaguers. Like Adrian Johnson. I saw him in the
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: minor leagues but he had big league time, Mark Wagner,
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: same thing, everybody else, Like we came kind of came
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: up through the minor leagues together and then they've been
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: they've been established. So for me, I like seeing all
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: these names it's really cool because you don't have the
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: you don't have the old guard, many of the old
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: guard in there right now.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the problem to me is that it appears as
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: if there is an everyone gets a metal situation, like
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: you can't be umping in the show for a long
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: time and not get certain playoff games or even World
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: Series games, And that just doesn't make sense. I mean,
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: we're in sports. It's about competition. It's an honor just
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: to be an umpire in the major leagues. So once
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: you got that, great, Now, if you're not one of
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: the best behind the plate.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: That's okay.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: You don't have to call pitches behind the plate. It's okay.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: You can do that in the regular season, but in
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: the postseason, I just don't think that's the time. But again,
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: I feel like a broken record on this, but it's true.
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: If everybody wants a medal, if they want to do
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: it where everybody wants a medal and you know what,
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: you want to be behind a dish on one of
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: the games, We're going to continue the same route that
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: we have right now, where it's kind of random's kind
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: of seniority kind of thing, like I need everybody got
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: it top seven Top seven get all seven games behind
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: a dish doesn't mean you're gonna work in the field,
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: and the guys that are working in the field not
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: necessarily going to work behind home plate. You earn it,
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: you get there bout a being it's over.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: And if you're the worst in the league, you get
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: the celebrity softball game next year, relegation. I'm kidding, but
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: like I just I don't out of words for how
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: this works where you don't look down and and I
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: don't need one through seven, Like even if it's just, hey,
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: we got the top twenty five in here, because maybe
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: there's some issue or sceniarto whatever, it's just like the
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: fact that we have some guys that are ranked, you know,
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: pretty low, like we've got a seventy five out of
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: ninety two. That's just that's not cool.
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: And they can make their own rankings for it, like
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: they do.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: I think that's part of the die. They have their
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: own rankings, but they don't all.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: Have to do it.
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: Maybe these are the rankings that came out with the
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: top seven transparent tell us that all right, all right,
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: I'm not saying let me see, I mean, maybe something
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: they've seen the whole year, Like you know, this guy
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: his numbers transpired to be number six.
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: We don't know this. They don't go by this. What
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: you know.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: I agree, show it, show it. I would love that
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: it's not the FBI. Show us the results. Thank you
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: very much. Time for an MLB nine innings twenty five
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: conversation about the World Series with our guy looking fresh
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: for Kevin Polar Yeah, he's fresh, he's got it and
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: he's ready to go.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: Kp.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: Happy World Series day to you. And what do you
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: have for us tonight? I mean, you've been a little
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: nostradamis in terms of predicting what's going on with the
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: Blue Jays. So would you like to make one fan
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: base happy and pissed the other side off?
• 40:03
  Speaker 6: First off, all I want to say, I'm just this
• 40:05
  Speaker 6: is exciting for me. I mean, as you guys can attest,
• 40:08
  Speaker 6: you work your whole life to play in a World
• 40:10
  Speaker 6: Series and unfortunately I didn't get an opportunity to do
• 40:13
  Speaker 6: that as a player. So me kind of being able
• 40:15
  Speaker 6: to hop on the back of this Toronto Blue Jays
• 40:17
  Speaker 6: team kind of be brought back into that ecosystem, Like
• 40:20
  Speaker 6: it's exciting for me, you know, my heart's kind of
• 40:22
  Speaker 6: beating fast. I got a room right here looking at
• 40:25
  Speaker 6: the Rogers Center, and I mean the line right now
• 40:28
  Speaker 6: just to be outside the stadium is crazy. Like the
• 40:31
  Speaker 6: fact that I'm going to get to step foot. I
• 40:34
  Speaker 6: never went as a fan either, so like this is
• 40:36
  Speaker 6: really exciting for me in terms of predictions. So I've
• 40:40
  Speaker 6: been getting a lot of questions from friends at home
• 40:41
  Speaker 6: and for the audience out there that don't know. I
• 40:45
  Speaker 6: grew up in southern California. That's where I was born.
• 40:47
  Speaker 6: I was a Dodger fan my whole life until I
• 40:49
  Speaker 6: got into professional baseball. So I got a lot of
• 40:51
  Speaker 6: friends and family still back at home that are Dodger fans.
• 40:55
  Speaker 6: Some of my family converted to being Blue Jay fans,
• 40:58
  Speaker 6: and then I took them through the Ringer the league,
• 41:00
  Speaker 6: so they're.
• 41:00
  Speaker 7: Actually very confused.
• 41:02
  Speaker 6: But I think more than any series that I can remember,
• 41:05
  Speaker 6: I think this has got the biggest randomness to it.
• 41:09
  Speaker 6: I mean, I could see the Dodgers winning in four,
• 41:11
  Speaker 6: and I could see the Blue Jays winning in seven,
• 41:13
  Speaker 6: and pretty much anywhere in between.
• 41:15
  Speaker 7: But I need to I want.
• 41:17
  Speaker 6: To see the way they deploy this lineup before I
• 41:19
  Speaker 6: kind of make a prediction because I'm even though that
• 41:23
  Speaker 6: I'm kind of in that inner circle with the Toronto
• 41:25
  Speaker 6: Blue Jays, I don't know entirely what bo is.
• 41:28
  Speaker 7: Capable of doing.
• 41:30
  Speaker 6: You know, I think he is the great equalizer when
• 41:32
  Speaker 6: it comes to just adding pure talent to the Blue
• 41:36
  Speaker 6: Jays lineup. So I'm curious to see how he's used tonight.
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: All right, Well, if you're kind of in the inner circle,
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: maybe just on the outer circle, and you're looking, have
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: you seen him run? Have you been on the field
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: always seen his like videos from like the roof of
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: the Rogers Center.
• 41:51
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I've been. I've been in there.
• 41:52
  Speaker 6: I saw him running Seattle. I saw him run the
• 41:55
  Speaker 6: other day. I've had a one on one conversation with him. Obviously,
• 42:00
  Speaker 6: the injury has it's it's it's public knowledge, like it's
• 42:03
  Speaker 6: not an injury that's going to heal in this short
• 42:05
  Speaker 6: amount of time that he needed in order for it
• 42:08
  Speaker 6: to heal. But he's feeling confident every day was a step.
• 42:12
  Speaker 7: In the right direction.
• 42:14
  Speaker 6: What he's been doing behind the scenes in terms of
• 42:17
  Speaker 6: you know, his routine hitting and keeping his arm in
• 42:20
  Speaker 6: shape and kind of recreating that speed of the game
• 42:25
  Speaker 6: in the box and if there's one guy that I
• 42:26
  Speaker 6: would bet on out of all the players in Major
• 42:29
  Speaker 6: League Baseball, he's near that top of the list of
• 42:32
  Speaker 6: guys that I would feel comfortable rolling into a batter's box,
• 42:36
  Speaker 6: not playing in over, you know, a month and a half,
• 42:38
  Speaker 6: almost two months. I think he's that good of a hitter.
• 42:41
  Speaker 6: I think his hand eye coornation is that good. I
• 42:43
  Speaker 6: think he's born to be.
• 42:44
  Speaker 7: A professional hitter.
• 42:45
  Speaker 6: And he might not be the same guy, but I
• 42:47
  Speaker 6: think his you know, sixty seventy eighty percent, whatever he
• 42:51
  Speaker 6: feels like he is, is better than you know, some
• 42:53
  Speaker 6: other options that they have.
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: Did you see any change in the running because the
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: running videos I've seen again they're from long distance away,
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: maybe from your hotel room, I'm not sure, but it
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: didn't look good. It didn't look like somebody that I'm like, Okay,
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: I'm not debating the high eye hand coordination traject getting
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: his at bats. He's going to be able to He'll
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: be ready with a stick. But did you see any
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: change from Seattle to hear.
• 43:18
  Speaker 7: I think it's the way he's been bouncing back.
• 43:19
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, he looks a little hobbled when he's running,
• 43:22
  Speaker 6: but for someone who's also you know, had to come
• 43:25
  Speaker 6: back from some injuries and never like an injury.
• 43:28
  Speaker 7: Like he's had.
• 43:28
  Speaker 6: But you have to kind of check the boxes when
• 43:30
  Speaker 6: you go out there run the field. No one's really
• 43:33
  Speaker 6: going out there, you know, making the tightest turns around
• 43:36
  Speaker 6: the bases. You know, the the risk reward of him
• 43:39
  Speaker 6: going out there, and you know, showing he could run
• 43:42
  Speaker 6: at one hundred percent is not worth the risk of injury.
• 43:44
  Speaker 7: I think, and as you guys know, you guys.
• 43:47
  Speaker 6: Played a game. Adrenaline is a crazy drug. You know,
• 43:49
  Speaker 6: he gets out there and he's able to kind of
• 43:51
  Speaker 6: move around, you know, how well is he going to
• 43:53
  Speaker 6: be able to move side to side? Where does he
• 43:55
  Speaker 6: fit in into this Blue Jays roster? Is it at
• 43:58
  Speaker 6: second base? I don't believe it would be shortstop? And
• 44:01
  Speaker 6: I think the big thing to also remember with this
• 44:03
  Speaker 6: too is Georgia isn't one hundred percent either. I don't
• 44:07
  Speaker 6: feel confident with him kinda and I don't think the
• 44:09
  Speaker 6: Blue Jays feel no confident en rolling George out there
• 44:12
  Speaker 6: in right field. I think of a situation, you know,
• 44:16
  Speaker 6: you know what happened where you know that was the
• 44:18
  Speaker 6: last case scenario and they needed George to go out
• 44:20
  Speaker 6: there for a couple of innings, he would do it.
• 44:22
  Speaker 6: But for him to start out there, given what he
• 44:25
  Speaker 6: had just gone through, you know, less than a week ago,
• 44:28
  Speaker 6: getting hit off the knee. I mean, he was even
• 44:30
  Speaker 6: uncertain going into game six. In Game seven, and as
• 44:33
  Speaker 6: you could tell early on in that game, his swings
• 44:37
  Speaker 6: weren't great. You could tell the knee was bothering him.
• 44:39
  Speaker 6: He took that swing, he fell to a knee. You
• 44:41
  Speaker 6: could see him grimacing in pain. But once again, the
• 44:44
  Speaker 6: most amazing drug in the world, adrenaline. Playing in front
• 44:47
  Speaker 6: of forty seven thousand people. Did you see how high
• 44:50
  Speaker 6: he got off the ground running the first base with
• 44:52
  Speaker 6: a guy with the bum knee. So only imagine what
• 44:55
  Speaker 6: Bo would feel like if he was able to, you know,
• 44:58
  Speaker 6: not only run out of the ugo out for maybe
• 45:00
  Speaker 6: the opening ceremonies, but maybe get a chance to pinch
• 45:04
  Speaker 6: it or maybe even play second base. Like I think,
• 45:07
  Speaker 6: you go out there and you see what he has
• 45:09
  Speaker 6: to give you. And obviously he's been on the field
• 45:11
  Speaker 6: the last couple of days, they have a better indication
• 45:13
  Speaker 6: of where he's at. But game adrenaline is a crazy thing,
• 45:17
  Speaker 6: especially on the stage.
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: Love adrenaline, love it, eat it up.
• 45:21
  Speaker 4: I know you ate it up with all those nasty
• 45:24
  Speaker 4: catches you had there in center field.
• 45:26
  Speaker 7: One.
• 45:26
  Speaker 4: Talk about how this atmosphere is going to be in Toronto.
• 45:29
  Speaker 4: I know you kind of talked a little bit about
• 45:31
  Speaker 4: it a while ago. Talk about the atmosphere and talk
• 45:34
  Speaker 4: about how they get on Blake Snell early and often,
• 45:37
  Speaker 4: because when they score early, they really find ways to
• 45:41
  Speaker 4: win ball games.
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: That one talking about the blue Jays.
• 45:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think there's no secret in baseball anymore. When
• 45:47
  Speaker 6: the Blue Jays are in the playoffs and their teams
• 45:49
  Speaker 6: are very good, they have a true home field advantage,
• 45:52
  Speaker 6: especially when the roof is closed. I don't think there's
• 45:54
  Speaker 6: a louder place in baseball than the Rogers Center when
• 45:58
  Speaker 6: it's rocking. And you know, credit to the Seattle Mariners,
• 46:02
  Speaker 6: you know, in that Game seven, they were able to
• 46:04
  Speaker 6: score a little bit early and that and and baseball
• 46:06
  Speaker 6: is a weird sport. Baseball is a very reactionary sport.
• 46:09
  Speaker 6: Like it's hard to just kind of manufacture noise, and
• 46:13
  Speaker 6: you know, people that come to watch games, it's hard
• 46:15
  Speaker 6: to be loud and be excited when the game is
• 46:19
  Speaker 6: not that exciting. And when the other team is winning
• 46:22
  Speaker 6: and you don't really have much to kind of show
• 46:24
  Speaker 6: for it.
• 46:25
  Speaker 7: But what the Blue Jays did.
• 46:26
  Speaker 6: A really good job is crawling back into that game.
• 46:28
  Speaker 6: Then obviously the Springer moment, you know, I'm surprised the
• 46:31
  Speaker 6: roof is still on that stadium with how loud it
• 46:34
  Speaker 6: was in there. It was one of the best scenes
• 46:36
  Speaker 6: that I had ever seen in baseball.
• 46:37
  Speaker 7: And I was a player and.
• 46:39
  Speaker 6: Got to witness Jose Batista's batflip in Game five, and
• 46:43
  Speaker 6: there was Honestly, I think the difference was there was
• 46:47
  Speaker 6: this There was this build up to Jose's home run,
• 46:50
  Speaker 6: like there was the airs, The stadium was kind of loud, loud, loud.
• 46:53
  Speaker 7: And then the roof blew off.
• 46:55
  Speaker 6: George Springer's going into that inning, that stadium was almost
• 46:58
  Speaker 6: dead silent, and then there was this very very slow
• 47:01
  Speaker 6: bill to Obviously, when Springer hit the home run, it
• 47:03
  Speaker 6: was probably the loudest I'd ever heard of stadium. But
• 47:06
  Speaker 6: I've been talking about this and you like me coming
• 47:08
  Speaker 6: out with crazy predictions and crazy thoughts.
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 47:12
  Speaker 7: As great as it is to host the playoff game and.
• 47:14
  Speaker 6: Especially a World Series, I always feel like the pressures
• 47:17
  Speaker 6: on the home team. When you're playing at home, you're
• 47:20
  Speaker 6: expected to win. You have all these people coming to
• 47:22
  Speaker 6: watch you. This is the first World Series game in
• 47:25
  Speaker 6: thirty two years held in this great city. I think
• 47:28
  Speaker 6: you saw the effects of that in the CS Series,
• 47:32
  Speaker 6: when you know, they had all the rest, they had
• 47:35
  Speaker 6: their starting pitching lineup, they had a fresh bullpen. You know,
• 47:38
  Speaker 6: they got to the they finally won a playoff series
• 47:41
  Speaker 6: since twenty sixteen. Seattle's coming off this very long emotional series.
• 47:47
  Speaker 6: You know, every reason to kind of bet against the
• 47:49
  Speaker 6: Seattle Mariners and hop on the Blue Jays bandwagon, But
• 47:52
  Speaker 6: I always feel like the pressures.
• 47:54
  Speaker 7: On that home team. For that reason, baseball is very reactionary.
• 47:57
  Speaker 6: If you don't give the fans something to kind of
• 48:00
  Speaker 6: react to, you know, then you start to feel the tension,
• 48:03
  Speaker 6: You start to feel the nerves. And I think you know,
• 48:06
  Speaker 6: seeing that first hand in the Rogers Center and pretty
• 48:09
  Speaker 6: much everywhere else you go in baseball, you feel that
• 48:11
  Speaker 6: as a home team. I felt it when I played
• 48:13
  Speaker 6: in Atlanta. When we were there, we didn't give them
• 48:15
  Speaker 6: a lot to cheer about, and then you could kind
• 48:17
  Speaker 6: of feel this nervous energy into the stadium.
• 48:19
  Speaker 7: And not only now are.
• 48:20
  Speaker 6: You trying to battle the team you're playing against. You're
• 48:23
  Speaker 6: trying to find a way to energize these fans again.
• 48:25
  Speaker 6: So I'm always a little skeptical to like put a
• 48:29
  Speaker 6: lot of stock into the home team early on in
• 48:31
  Speaker 6: the series. I feel like as you kind of get
• 48:34
  Speaker 6: into the flow of the series, I think home field
• 48:36
  Speaker 6: advantage plays a little bit more.
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: So did you purposely duck Todd's question?
• 48:42
  Speaker 7: Which?
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Because is it because of all your elite success?
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: Kevin Pilar is going to be active, You're gonna rip
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: your jersey off and you're batting third tonight. You got
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: three bangers, You're ten for twenty five. You own Blakes.
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: So that's why you're not saying anything, but we need
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: to hear how how can the Blue Jays own him?
• 49:04
  Speaker 6: Yeah, much like the first pitch, Like I said, I'm
• 49:07
  Speaker 6: a team guy. I don't like the attention on me. Yes,
• 49:09
  Speaker 6: I am well aware of my success of Blake Snell,
• 49:12
  Speaker 6: and I'm pretty sure I'm going to be asked about
• 49:14
  Speaker 6: it on Sportsnet tonight to kind of talk about what
• 49:16
  Speaker 6: I would do. Blake Snell is an elite pitcher with
• 49:19
  Speaker 6: elite stuff. I think what the Blue Jays offer is
• 49:22
  Speaker 6: the ability to swing at strikes put the ball in
• 49:24
  Speaker 6: play early. I think if they can eliminate strikeouts. And
• 49:28
  Speaker 6: I never pitched, and obviously Kratsey, you probably have a
• 49:30
  Speaker 6: little bit more knowledge in this department.
• 49:32
  Speaker 7: When you have a guy.
• 49:33
  Speaker 6: Like Blake Snell that is an elite competitor that loves
• 49:36
  Speaker 6: punching tickets. If you don't allow this guy to punch tickets,
• 49:40
  Speaker 6: does he try to reach back for more? Does he
• 49:42
  Speaker 6: start trying to throw wipe out pitches earlier? If he's
• 49:44
  Speaker 6: not getting a lot of swing and miss. Does that
• 49:46
  Speaker 6: kind of affect the way he feels about his stuff
• 49:48
  Speaker 6: even if he's getting outs with those things. You know,
• 49:51
  Speaker 6: I don't know Blake Snell personally, but I would love
• 49:53
  Speaker 6: to get your take on that. If you have a
• 49:55
  Speaker 6: guy who loves his stuff and he's you know, one
• 49:59
  Speaker 6: of the best pitch in baseball punching tickets, getting swing
• 50:02
  Speaker 6: and miss, and he's not getting those things, even though
• 50:04
  Speaker 6: he may be getting out.
• 50:06
  Speaker 7: Does that affect him? But what I think the Blue Jays.
• 50:08
  Speaker 6: Do in order to counteract Blake Snell's aggressive or greatness,
• 50:13
  Speaker 6: it's continue to be aggressive, don't allow him to get
• 50:15
  Speaker 6: deep into counts. Don't allow him to get two strikes
• 50:17
  Speaker 6: where he can start to throw his wipeout stuff. I
• 50:20
  Speaker 6: think the Blue Jays, and I've talked to the hitting
• 50:23
  Speaker 6: coaches there with the Toronto Blue Jays, what they are
• 50:25
  Speaker 6: really good is they want you to be you. They
• 50:28
  Speaker 6: want you to stick to your strengths. For me, against
• 50:31
  Speaker 6: Blake Snell, I usually tunneled the inner half of the plate.
• 50:34
  Speaker 6: I wanted to battle the fastball slider. I wanted to
• 50:36
  Speaker 6: avoid the fastball and the change up on the outer half.
• 50:40
  Speaker 6: I felt like I had more success trying to pull
• 50:42
  Speaker 6: the ball against Blake Snell. Every once in a while
• 50:45
  Speaker 6: I could get that change up that started middle in
• 50:47
  Speaker 6: and kind of leaked over the plate and maybe I can,
• 50:49
  Speaker 6: you know, ass out it, flip it over the shortstoff head.
• 50:52
  Speaker 6: And to me, the curveball is like the trap pitch
• 50:54
  Speaker 6: with him. It's nasty, it looks like a strike, and
• 50:58
  Speaker 6: I think if you could try to eliminate that, I
• 51:00
  Speaker 6: think the Blue Jays can, you know, have some success off.
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: You're going up.
• 51:05
  Speaker 6: Against one of the game's best whose seers you know, uh,
• 51:08
  Speaker 6: you know, pitching at his best right now, and I
• 51:11
  Speaker 6: think that is the most interesting storyline in this series
• 51:14
  Speaker 6: is the elite starting pitching versus the bat and ball
• 51:17
  Speaker 6: skills against the Toronto Blue Jays.
• 51:19
  Speaker 7: It's gonna be very interesting to watch.
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: You check two boxes, you know, Blue Jays fans and
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: your boots on the ground. Right now, There's two guys
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: on the Dodgers, Roki Sasaki and Shoheo Tani, who were
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: rumored or maybe just used as a manipulating, you know,
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: tactic of going to the Blue Jays. We'll never know
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: until they honestly are on a lie detector test if
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: Roki and show, hey, we're going to be coming to
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: the Blue Jays or not they seem destined to the Dodgers.
• 51:48
  Speaker 3: Are they gonna get loud enough booze that they're not
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: going to be able to hear their name being said
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: when they're announced.
• 51:55
  Speaker 7: I mean, maybe one of them.
• 51:56
  Speaker 6: But there also is a large Japanese population here in Toronto,
• 51:59
  Speaker 6: so I think there's going to be kind of mixed
• 52:01
  Speaker 6: reviews with it. But regardless if those rumors are true
• 52:05
  Speaker 6: or not true. And like you said, we're not going
• 52:06
  Speaker 6: to know the entirety of the story until maybe many
• 52:09
  Speaker 6: years later. What it did for the Blue Jays brand
• 52:13
  Speaker 6: was very important. I think the fact that they went
• 52:16
  Speaker 6: out and at least what we do know certainty is
• 52:19
  Speaker 6: they did have one of those meetings with show A.
• 52:21
  Speaker 6: They had it with Roki I believe they had it
• 52:23
  Speaker 6: with Juan Soto. The fact that they are finally in
• 52:26
  Speaker 6: a position with ownership, with Mark Schapiro, with Ross Akins,
• 52:31
  Speaker 6: with everyone involved with the stadium renovations, that they want
• 52:34
  Speaker 6: to be a team that is willing to go out
• 52:36
  Speaker 6: and spend money on these type of free agents. That
• 52:39
  Speaker 6: they want to be this destination for players to come.
• 52:42
  Speaker 6: I think is part of the reason that they're here.
• 52:45
  Speaker 6: I think they are a team that is willing to
• 52:47
  Speaker 6: they want to go down the same path that the
• 52:49
  Speaker 6: Los Angeles Dodgers are going down. Is we want to
• 52:51
  Speaker 6: be a destination that players want to go and play for.
• 52:55
  Speaker 6: You know, their selling point is, you know, obviously Toronto's
• 52:57
  Speaker 6: a great place, but it's a very international city. It
• 53:00
  Speaker 6: also is the only place you represent an entire country.
• 53:03
  Speaker 6: But it shows that they want to win year after
• 53:06
  Speaker 6: year after year and hopefully this is the first and
• 53:08
  Speaker 6: many successful seasons for the Blue Jays. And obviously going
• 53:13
  Speaker 6: out and signing Flattie to that fourteen year deal in
• 53:17
  Speaker 6: spring training shows their commitment to winning.
• 53:22
  Speaker 4: All right, real simple question here, should Bobashett play every
• 53:25
  Speaker 4: single game in order for them to win this World Series?
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: Wow?
• 53:31
  Speaker 7: It's a great question, Todd.
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: Do you want like my thing? Get?
• 53:36
  Speaker 6: I thought my initial thought process, you know, as he
• 53:38
  Speaker 6: was trending in the right direction, and like I said,
• 53:40
  Speaker 6: me getting a chance to talk to him, I don't
• 53:44
  Speaker 6: know what goes on behind closed doors, you know, I've
• 53:46
  Speaker 6: only seen what I've seen. I've had my conversations with him.
• 53:49
  Speaker 6: But I thought, as the series went on and the
• 53:54
  Speaker 6: Blue Jays won, I thought, without a doubt Bobashett would
• 53:58
  Speaker 6: be on the playoff roster and what capacity what they
• 54:01
  Speaker 6: use them at the very least, I think Boba Schet
• 54:04
  Speaker 6: sitting on the bench as a right handed bat, you know,
• 54:07
  Speaker 6: with you know, his name on the back of the jersey,
• 54:10
  Speaker 6: with the type of hitter he is, with the type
• 54:12
  Speaker 6: of you know stage he commands, with his ability to
• 54:16
  Speaker 6: put the ball in play. The one thing he did
• 54:18
  Speaker 6: tell me is he believes in his ability to put
• 54:20
  Speaker 6: it a great at bat together. Right now, and that
• 54:23
  Speaker 6: might have been a week ago when he said it
• 54:25
  Speaker 6: like that is his greatest attribute as a player is
• 54:28
  Speaker 6: he can put together a great at bat, whether he
• 54:31
  Speaker 6: plays second base or he DHS, or he's sitting on
• 54:34
  Speaker 6: the bench. I think him being on the roster just
• 54:37
  Speaker 6: makes decisions that Dave Roberts may may have to make
• 54:41
  Speaker 6: later in the game a little bit more challenging. Does
• 54:44
  Speaker 6: he go to that left hander like in the seventh
• 54:46
  Speaker 6: inning in that var Show Barger window, knowing that there's
• 54:50
  Speaker 6: this Boba sheet guy sitting on the bench, and they
• 54:53
  Speaker 6: also have a guy by the name of Type France
• 54:55
  Speaker 6: that they added to the roster. If you don't believe
• 54:57
  Speaker 6: that both of those guys were added to the roster,
• 55:01
  Speaker 6: you know, as right handed bats that could kind of
• 55:03
  Speaker 6: counteract some of the left handed pitching that they had
• 55:06
  Speaker 6: coming out of the bullpen, you're crazy, you know. I
• 55:09
  Speaker 6: would personally like to see Bob Baschett maybe in Game
• 55:13
  Speaker 6: one man, if he could DH, that would be like
• 55:16
  Speaker 6: the ideal situation. But I think finding him a window
• 55:21
  Speaker 6: where he gets a pinch hit in a game to
• 55:23
  Speaker 6: really kind of see where the heart beats at, where
• 55:25
  Speaker 6: the body's at, where the swing is at, where the
• 55:28
  Speaker 6: timing's at, and if he's able to get on bass.
• 55:30
  Speaker 6: How does he actually look running down the line?
• 55:32
  Speaker 7: You know, I don't believe.
• 55:34
  Speaker 6: He's a guy that if he pinch hits in a game,
• 55:37
  Speaker 6: is he going to stay in the game to run
• 55:39
  Speaker 6: the bases and play the field. Maybe there's this you know,
• 55:43
  Speaker 6: slow entry to the series, and maybe by game two
• 55:46
  Speaker 6: or three, if he's really trending in the right direction,
• 55:49
  Speaker 6: maybe we see him out there. But it'll be interesting
• 55:52
  Speaker 6: to see a bobashet And I haven't been around the
• 55:55
  Speaker 6: team all year and I didn't really get a chance
• 55:57
  Speaker 6: to play with Bo.
• 55:59
  Speaker 7: Is he a guy that.
• 56:00
  Speaker 6: Comes out for BP? Is he a guy that comes
• 56:02
  Speaker 6: out takes ground balls. I'm certainly gonna be over there
• 56:05
  Speaker 6: during batting practice, and that's what I want to look for.
• 56:08
  Speaker 6: Is Boba shut out there hitting with this team? Is
• 56:10
  Speaker 6: he out there taking ground balls? And how does he
• 56:12
  Speaker 6: freaking look?
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: You know?
• 56:13
  Speaker 6: Does he look the part? Does he look like he
• 56:14
  Speaker 6: can play nine names today? But I think it's regardless
• 56:20
  Speaker 6: of what capacity is in, I think it's gonna make
• 56:22
  Speaker 6: decisions on the Dodgers a little bit more tough.
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: I think the good number to set is seven hits
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: over under. That's how many Schwarber got when he came
• 56:30
  Speaker 3: back and came back from his acl So we'll see.
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: But the big problem for the Blue Jays is they
• 56:36
  Speaker 3: don't have the length and they're starting pitching, so they're
• 56:38
  Speaker 3: gonna rely on this bullpen. Scott had brought it up
• 56:41
  Speaker 3: earlier in the show. Do you think they're gonna go
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: with kind of like a Hey, Chris Bassett, you're gonna
• 56:47
  Speaker 3: give us a little bit. Hey, I know you don't
• 56:50
  Speaker 3: Trey you Savage. Maybe because he's young, they wouldn't do it,
• 56:52
  Speaker 3: but hey, today's your side day. We're gonna go and
• 56:55
  Speaker 3: we're gonna give you two innings just because of what
• 56:59
  Speaker 3: we've seen from their best, second best reliever in Louis Varlin.
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: He's just pitched every single game and once these guys
• 57:07
  Speaker 3: see guys, it is lights out. So how are they
• 57:10
  Speaker 3: gonna deploy this? And where do you see some of
• 57:13
  Speaker 3: the other guys that you're like, I don't know how
• 57:15
  Speaker 3: they're gonna use them being used in this bullpen?
• 57:19
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I highly doubt you see like a Kevin Gosman
• 57:21
  Speaker 6: maybe before later in the series. I think you keep
• 57:24
  Speaker 6: him fresh for you know, a game six start obviously
• 57:29
  Speaker 6: subject to change, you know, if the Dodger or the
• 57:31
  Speaker 6: Dodgers get out to an early lead in the series,
• 57:34
  Speaker 6: and Game six is in a guarantee. Most definitely you'll
• 57:37
  Speaker 6: see Kevin Gosman out there. But I think Chris Bassett
• 57:40
  Speaker 6: is the biggest X factor. You know, he didn't get
• 57:43
  Speaker 6: really any run. I think he pitched in Game two
• 57:45
  Speaker 6: when the game was a little out of hand, pitched
• 57:48
  Speaker 6: a little bit differently, you know, he had to pitch
• 57:50
  Speaker 6: for length a little bit more in that game. But
• 57:53
  Speaker 6: to no surprise, what John Snyder's done all year is
• 57:56
  Speaker 6: kind of think outside the box. He talked to me,
• 57:59
  Speaker 6: you know, on the field, you know, during Game three
• 58:02
  Speaker 6: of the CS. You know, we had a long conversation
• 58:05
  Speaker 6: and his message in spring training was be you and
• 58:08
  Speaker 6: we are going to find a spot to maximize your
• 58:11
  Speaker 6: skill set. And right now Chris bass bassett skill set
• 58:15
  Speaker 6: is being in that trust circle of trust with John Snyder.
• 58:19
  Speaker 6: I don't think anyone really predicted, maybe outside me, because
• 58:22
  Speaker 6: I said, you know, Bassett was gonna get into Game seven,
• 58:25
  Speaker 6: But I don't think anyone predicted him pitching the eighth
• 58:27
  Speaker 6: inning of a two run game. But he's been there,
• 58:31
  Speaker 6: He's done it. He's got a slow heartbeat, you know,
• 58:34
  Speaker 6: you know Cratsy and Fraser, you know, these games is
• 58:38
  Speaker 6: so much about controlling the emotions, controlling the heartbeat. And
• 58:42
  Speaker 6: you know what I was talking to Caleb Joseph about,
• 58:45
  Speaker 6: you know, when we're texting there in the game, about
• 58:47
  Speaker 6: you know, when guys come in, you know, we're talking
• 58:49
  Speaker 6: the game, and we.
• 58:51
  Speaker 7: Both kept asking for the curve ball because I believe.
• 58:54
  Speaker 6: In big moments, when the game is at its highest moment,
• 58:59
  Speaker 6: people can hit a rigging fastball shot out of rifle.
• 59:01
  Speaker 6: You know, we're all moving fast, our heartbeats beating fast.
• 59:04
  Speaker 6: I think sometimes slow is most effective in those situations.
• 59:08
  Speaker 6: And sure enough, Chris Bassett, you know, has the cahonas
• 59:11
  Speaker 6: to throw that seventy two mile out kurbball in there,
• 59:14
  Speaker 6: and I expect that to be a factor in this game.
• 59:16
  Speaker 6: Although the Dodgers have been there, done it, they have
• 59:19
  Speaker 6: a little bit slower heartbeat than maybe the Toronto Blue Jays. Tonight,
• 59:24
  Speaker 6: expect John Snyder to you know, stay on script with
• 59:28
  Speaker 6: like the Louis Varlins and the Jeff Hobbins and the
• 59:31
  Speaker 6: Sir Anthony Demingis. But I don't think what happened to
• 59:33
  Speaker 6: him with you know, Brandon Little in Game six is
• 59:36
  Speaker 6: going to affect the way that he uses Maybe he
• 59:39
  Speaker 6: finds a different pocket for him.
• 59:40
  Speaker 7: But I expect all hands on deck.
• 59:43
  Speaker 6: I expect some out of the box thinking and really
• 59:47
  Speaker 6: just trusting his guys because I think that's what's gotten
• 59:49
  Speaker 6: to this point.
• 59:49
  Speaker 7: I don't expect John.
• 59:50
  Speaker 6: Schneider to change the way he's managed up until this point.
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: KP.
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: Hitting question for you, and we're going to cover this
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: a little bit in our segment so you can help
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: us kick this off. What do you have on the
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: bat speed conversation? And Dave Popkins as if you know
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: he's bringing this concept to players, like, hey, if you
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: swing the bat faster like that, that could create an
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: advantage for you. But there's also the balance, of course,
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: if not striking out too much. So that plus I'll
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: add a story from Mitch bennon The Athletic that I
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: read last night, and Popkins, who is beloved by the players,
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: said in the first two games against the Mariners, they
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: were owning the zone and he said they needed more
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: slug and they were able to turn that on with
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: their game plan. So I don't know if those two
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: things that just asked are connected. But just curious to
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: get your thoughts.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I know it sounds kind of like
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 6: an elementary thought that you know, more bat speed would
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 6: egal more velocity and more power, But it wasn't probably
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 6: something that was talked about a whole lot. And maybe
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 6: the previous regime of hitting coaches here, and that's me
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 6: maybe speaking, you know, out of turn. I don't know
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 6: that definitively, but I do know that the new hitting
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 6: coaches they brought in, you know, implemented that.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 7: And you know, I wish it.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 6: Was as easy as, you know, just saying, hey, we're
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 6: going to alter our game plan, We're gonna slug more.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 6: But the strength that the Blue Jays do have is
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 6: that they do put the ball in play. And I
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 6: think they just had to kind of recalibrate what they
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 6: meant by putting the ball in play. Didn't mean just hey,
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 6: move advance the ball, like, let's take our shots early.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 6: I think when you have a team that doesn't strike out,
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 6: and is that a really good contact team is you
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 6: allow them to take bigger swings early in the count.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 6: You allow them to hunt pitches in certain zones and
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 6: allow them to quote unquote maybe swing for the fences
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 6: a little bit more early on in the count, because
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 6: as you know, they get deeper in the count, they
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 6: have that ability to maybe shorten up a little bit,
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 6: you know, use the opposite field, just put the ball
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 6: in play, you know, talking the front office, talking to
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 6: you know, Mark Shapiro. They've talked about you know, Popkins
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 6: and his staff as being you know, ranchise altering decision
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 6: then bringing in you know, I've been around a lot
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 6: of hitting coaches. I've had a lot of great hitting coaches.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 6: I've had some very average hitting coaches. My conversations with
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 6: them is the exact type of guys that I wish
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 6: I would have got a chance to, you know, play
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 6: for what they what they're big on is stay with
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 6: your strengths. You know, we don't necessarily there's obviously a
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 6: biomechanic aspect, but what they really want you to do
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 6: is be the best athlete you can be. Being around
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 6: them during early BP, I mean they're just having these
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 6: guys launch, and you know, does that translate into the game. No,
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 6: But they want these guys to feel free and move
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 6: fast and you know, have big lay kicks and move
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 6: athletically and then they can always kind of narrow that
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 6: kind of you know thought process, game planning, you know,
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 6: mechanics stuff. But really they're just trying to get the
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  Speaker 6: best athlete out of every hitter, you know, and getting
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 6: their big guys. Getting Glady and George was a big
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 6: part of getting those guys on board. And you know,
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 6: I from what I had heard, Carlos Korea maybe reaching
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 6: out to George Springer and being like, hey, these guys
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  Speaker 6: are the real deals, like give them a chance, you know,
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  Speaker 6: put let us let them, you know, trust these guys.
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  Speaker 7: And obviously George, you know, was able to.
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  Speaker 6: Kind of trust these guys and and and move forward
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  Speaker 6: from you know, a couple of rough years and you
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  Speaker 6: know he's gonna get MVP votes this year. So a
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  Speaker 6: lot of credit to obviously the players, but behind the
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  Speaker 6: scenes having great hitting coaches that are always constantly preaching
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  Speaker 6: positivity and getting your swing off, and you know.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 7: You guys could attest to it too.
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  Speaker 6: You know, you get a lot of hitting coaches that
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 6: say like, hey, I want you to hunt here, but
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 6: I don't want you to go here, and don't chase here,
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 6: and and this and this. They're really big on Hey,
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 6: if this is your zone, you want here if the
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 6: pitch starts here and you know it's a breaking.
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  Speaker 7: Ball fit and you get fooled.
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  Speaker 6: Good, I want you to hunt this zone and get
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  Speaker 6: your swing off. And there's a lot of times they
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 6: try to make an approach seem like it's so easy, like, oh,
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 6: just hunt this pitch. Don't don't, don't don't Like you know,
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 6: guys don't tunnel pitches. Now, they are good with you
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 6: staying in your tunnel and getting your swing off. Type
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 6: of guys that I wish I could play for, because
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 6: a lot of times when you go up there with
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 6: the idea of yes and no and no and yes,
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 6: like you know, it starts to become a math equation
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 6: as opposed to let me just be the best rigin
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  Speaker 6: athlete I could be. Let me grab this bat, let
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 6: me swing it fast, and let me try to do
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  Speaker 6: some damage.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, real quick, what did you say about Korea and Springer?
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: So you're talking about Popkins? How you went from the
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: Dodgers actually to then to the Twins Twins let them go, whoops,
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: they're bad? And then Crea said, hey, this guy's really good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, as you know, like anytime you whether you're
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 6: a hitting coach, whether you're a sports psychiatrist, whether you're
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 6: you know, pitching coach, getting players like being able to
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 6: come into a new environment. The hardest thing you can
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 6: do is try to earn the trust of players. And
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 6: if you have players maybe in an other or your
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 6: previous organization, that are able to reach out to players,
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 6: you know, in your current organization, and you you give them,
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 6: you know, their blessing, and you say, hey, this guy's
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 6: the real deal, you know, and you get kind of
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 6: cut through that, you know, that little dance maybe early
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 6: on in the off season or spring training of like,
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  Speaker 6: you know.
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  Speaker 7: Why is this guy calling me?
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 6: I don't know him? You know, what's he have to
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  Speaker 6: offer me? When you can get a player's blessing and
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 6: be like, you know what, this this hitting coach was unbelievable.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 6: And there was places that I went, you know, and
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 6: I was able to either reach out to players or
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 6: players reached out to me and was like, Hey, coach
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 6: X is the real deal, and like you don't have
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 6: to go through that bs of like what's he have
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  Speaker 6: to offer?
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  Speaker 7: You know?
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  Speaker 6: Can I trust him?
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 7: You know, can I be vulnerable with him?
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 6: Is he going to run in the front office? Is
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 6: he going to tell someone, you know, does he really
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 6: know what he's talking about? When you get that confirmation
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 6: from a guy like you know, Carlos Korea, who's obviously
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 6: good friends with, you know, George Springer, and George Springer
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 6: is able to hop on from day one because he
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 6: heard from his buddy that, hey, Dave Popkins is the
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 6: real deal. And then you know, Springer maybe can convey
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 6: that message to a Boba Shed or a Vladie and
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 6: you get your big boys on table and then everyone
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 6: else kind of follows. I think that's what you're seeing there,
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 6: you know. And obviously I wasn't around in spring training,
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 6: but if you talk to these guys about them, they
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 6: smile ear to ear with confidence in what that hitting
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 6: departments being able to do for a lot of these players,
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 6: and what they're able to do game planning, And you know,
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 6: I asked them questions before the game about, you know,
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 6: how you guys going to game plan for them, and
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 6: I'm like, do you have a backup plan and a
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 6: backup plan?
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  Speaker 7: And they just wink.
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  Speaker 6: So I think they're always, you know, one, two, three
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  Speaker 6: steps ahead of maybe the counter that the picture or
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 6: the opposing team has, so.
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  Speaker 5: It's been fun.
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  Speaker 6: It's been a lot of fun to watch, and uh,
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  Speaker 6: it definitely seems like a place that I would have
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 6: thrived as a hitter.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 2: Last question before we let you go, fun little question.
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  Speaker 4: There's a lot of song songs that are gonna be
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  Speaker 4: sung here, a lot of artists that are playing.
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  Speaker 2: Give me your favorite one out of us.
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  Speaker 4: We've got Pharrell, we got a Lessi, Akara, Bibi Rexa,
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 4: Jonas Brothers.
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  Speaker 2: Who are you most excited to hear? Uh? Either play
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: the answer?
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  Speaker 6: Where's the Jonahs Brothers? Is that confirmed in l A already?
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 6: Because I think that the first two were confirmed here
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 6: where the Jonahs Brothers? Like a, they're confirmed to do
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 6: it at the point?
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  Speaker 4: Right, I thought it was Game one and two. Let's
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 4: all I forget about Jonas Bright how about I.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: Got it taking place after the fifth inning of games
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: that'll extend the moment with a special This is they're
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: part of the stand up to cancer, which is always
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: kind of one of my favorite parts that I heard.
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  Speaker 6: About the game one Game two.
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  Speaker 7: I didn't hear the Jonas.
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  Speaker 2: Brothers, but.
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  Speaker 6: I mean not not not not my most favorite type
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 6: of music. But I think Pharrell is kind of an
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 6: icon in the music industry. You know, I love I
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 6: love hats, and he's got a sweet hat game. So
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 6: I imagine his hat is going to take up a big
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 6: part of the stadium wherever he's at. And you know,
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 6: I heard I heard that. Uh, it's more than just him.
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 6: I think it's a it's gonna be a full blown show.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 6: So I'm definitely excited to see what he brings pregame today.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, Ifreg wants to stop by, then he's invited.
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: I'm sure. But we'll see, we'll see. This is his moment.
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 5: What do you guys got? What do you guys?
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 6: What's your guys predictions? I listened to a little bit
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 6: early on, but I was coming back. What do you
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 6: guys got.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: In terms of the music or the game?
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  Speaker 7: No? No, no, no, the game, the game, the series.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: At the beginning, no, we didn't do our predictions that
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: we're gonna do him at the end. I like what
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: you said at the beginning, Like I don't see the
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: Blue Jays winning a short series. I think the Blue
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: Jays either win in like a game six or seven
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: or the Dodgers. The Dodgers can win in a six
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: or seven, but they also could win in four or five.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: I don't think the Blue Jays are winning in four
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: or five games. The Dodgers are too good.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: Do you agree? No, he's not gonna like my prediction,
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: so I'm gonna be quiet. We're gonna.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: Too early in the show. On the show, tune for
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  Speaker 1: slap Pants.
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  Speaker 3: Log in the foul Territory in Canada. We're in Canada, Japan, Dominican, everywhere. KP.
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 3: You'll see our picks.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 2: I can't wait.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well, KP, great segment. You're the man. You're crushing
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: the broadcast game. Have fun out there, enjoy it, and
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: we'll talk to you next week.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 7: Ali, see you guys next week.
• 1:09:20
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• 1:09:51
  Speaker 2: KP.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: Smoltz Bieber, and the list goes on and on. We
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: have some word from Rokie Sasaki on how serious his
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: conversations with the Blue Jays were. Remember, the blue Jays
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: actually have Miles Straw on their roster because they were
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: freeing up space. They took that money on from Cleveland,
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: and good for them. They actually got themselves a player
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: who's having his best season ever. I think it's either
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: number one or number two from him. He's been a
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: really valuable part of this team and he's on the
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: roster here. He's fast, it's a good defender. Anyway, we
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: can show you here what Rookie said he was strongly
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: considering the Blue Jays and was definitely close to signing
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: with Toronto. It's actually really hard, this is the quote.
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: It's actually really hard to express why I eventually chose
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers. Really, this is no slight too hard to express,
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: because yeah, I don't believe.
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 3: You so hard. It's so hard I can't even come
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 3: up with the words. Maybe I'll ask my agent why
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 3: for the years before that I signed here, he was
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 3: pushing me for the Dodgers. It's so it's just I
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 3: can't I can't figure out why. But I'll put together
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 3: a statement at some point to tell you why I
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 3: chose the Dodgers.
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a tough one. I mean, I don't believe him,
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: but that's okay, that's me. It's not a conspiracy either.
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: At the time when people are they already was a
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: pre cut deal, a pre cut deal for what every
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: team was paying him between like five and ten million dollars.
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: This is not Yamamoto's contract. So I'm like, it's not
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: that he just he wanted to go there to a
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: team that's very good at recruiting Japanese players. They happen
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: to have the best player of all time on that team.
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: He's Japanese. They're really good. It's not a surprise.
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 3: There's too many there's too many statements that are like, wait,
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 3: what of course they knew where they were going to go?
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 3: Be a bad agent if he didn't tell them.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: I like the com waves on a Friday. We're looking
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: ahead to see the waves right now. It is a
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: little chilly day of but outside a little bit. Haven't
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: use that in a minute, haven't used that since last winter.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: So we talked a lot about Game one, and we'll
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: continue to talk about Game one in the series. But
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: let's spend a few minutes on game two. Why because
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: Foul Territory is a Monday through Friday show. Now we
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: are going to be on after the World Series Game one,
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: so we'll still talk about game two. But I just
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: want to bring up Kevin Gossman specifically, Gossman is pitching
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: game two instead of game one. Makes sense, give him
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: an extra day. He pitched in game seven, he Savage
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: did not, so he's lined up. Shi to VD posted
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: the quote from Gossman. I just want to get the
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: player perspective from you guys, and I'll read it for
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: you if I can see it. So he was throwing
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: aside yesterday and he said he went into Game seven
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: of the ALCS knowing that quote if I did get
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: in that game, that maybe Game one would be kind
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: of a stretch ch That was hard for me to swallow,
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: to be honest, he continued, but quote, I would hate
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: to go out there not knowing exactly what I'm going
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: to get out of myself. That played a big part
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: in the last couple days. Krats all, let you start
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: as the catcher where somebody's got to do real talk.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: I keep bringing up Matthew Boyd from that CUB series
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: when he went on short rest against the Brewers and
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: it didn't work out, And to me, I think it's
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: a very similar case.
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 3: Very similar case. You have to understand your body. I'm
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 3: not saying Matthew Boyd didn't understand his body. I'm saying
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 3: Gosmand knew that for him to fully commit to his outing,
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 3: however long it was going to be in game seven,
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 3: it would probably be a detriment to him being able
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 3: to start Game one. And good for the Blue Jays
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 3: and understanding that and not saying you're our best, we
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 3: gotta go, we gotta push you. You saw what happened.
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 3: You see what happens all the time, Not just Matthew
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 3: boy but you see what happens all the time. Differences
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 3: in the Matthew Boyd game, they were up against it.
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 3: The Blue Jays are not up against it. He throws
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 3: Game one, he throws again, in game four, Game five,
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 3: he throws, Game two, he throws again, game game six.
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 3: Matthew Boyd throws Game two. In the NLDS, there's no
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 3: game six, so that's a tougher. They were up against
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 3: it a little bit differently, but This isn't just a
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 3: Gosman thing, because every player wants to get out there
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 3: and throw in the game. If you think you're the
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 3: best player out there, you're gonna pitch, you're gonna hit.
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 3: It's the organization that has to say, Okay, we're we're good,
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 3: We're gonna, we're gonna We're gonna push you back because
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 3: what you gave us in Game seven.
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 2: And I think it's this bulldog mentality.
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 4: I think that's the other issue he You know, he
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 4: wants to be out there, he wants to help out
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 4: as much as possible, but he also understood like it
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 4: kind of I feel like he want being that game
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 4: one starter kind of sets the tone and I feel
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 4: like that's where he's at with it. I think he's
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 4: understanding about it and knows that's the possibility if I
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 4: came in and it was so. But for him, I
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 4: think he wants the ball now. He wants to be
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 4: that number one guy, and you know, he don't to
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 4: prove anybody, but to prove everybody that he is one
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 4: of the top starters.
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 2: In the league.
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 4: So that's where I'm at with it, and I think it's,
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 4: you know, water under the bridge now. It's time. It's
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 4: go time tonight. But for him to say that it
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 4: ate him up a little bit, of course, But I
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 4: think he understands going Game two will be just fine
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 4: as well. If they win Game one, I think he's
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 4: going to be.
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 2: Even more hyped.
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: Hey, coming up next. All right, let's slap we got
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  Speaker 1: two orders of business number one. I just love that
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: graphic foul territory post game after World Series Game one
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  Speaker 1: live on the FT YouTube channel, Be there, Dodgers, Blue
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: Jay's Baby, it's happening. It's tonight. We're watching and then
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: we're talking to you. We're excited about it, and we
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: want to give a special shout out right now to
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: our buddy Calvin. He's a fan of FT. Actually, his
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: little league coach is a big fan, his coach Marty,
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: and he's got his own YouTube channel, New York Sports Wire.
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: So if you want to give him a little bit
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: of love, Calvin Tome right now battling cancer. He's nine
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: years old, he's out of school. He's doing his thing.
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: Big big sports fan, tons of personality, got a great
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: left handed swing, loves playing the outfield, can handle a
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: little first base. So this is a baseball lifer. He
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: loves the game and he is doing his best. He's
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: battling it right now. So Cavin, we're thinking about you.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: Keep trucking through that. You've got this and a little
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: side hustle while he's doing it. That's that's a superstar
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: nine ers shot. Yeah, well, raised Mets fan watched.
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 2: You, so enjoy the World Series.
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: Two, kid, we're thinking about your Calvin. You're the man.
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: And for everyone else, enjoy the World Series. Who's winning
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: the series?
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 2: Dodgers and five?
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: Okay, I ow Dodgers and six. I don't feel great
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: about it. I like my heart thinks the Blue Jays
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: are going to be this crazy story. But man, the
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: Dodgers are so dominant.
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  Speaker 2: They might win one these first two games, but they're
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